Whose Terror?
I remember hearing the news and thinking that this was going to end badly for everyone. I had no idea just how bad things would get.
Art and the Smartphone
Could we ban cell phone photography in museums and at performances?
The Courage to Forget
Memories are important because—and when—they are selective, and few.
Had Any Candidate Explanations Recently?
Posted on October 19, 2023
Image: THR illustration; Fed Chair Jerome Powell speaking in 2022; AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta/The Hill.
Candidate as an adjective—was this the newest lingo, something a copy editor like me should know about?
The Man for Whom Everything Was a Game
by
Mark Dunbar
Posted on October 17, 2023
Image: John von Neumann with the Williams Storage Tube, 1952; Engineering and Technology History Wiki, https://ethw.org/John_von_Neumann.
John von Neumann’s life ended the way many of those of his intellectual caliber end: in madness.
Living in a WEIRDER World
by
Brad East
Posted on October 12, 2023
Image: William Blake’s illustrations for Dante’s Divine Comedy reflected the artist’s critical views of the Industrial Revolution. Minos, c.1824–27, by William Blake (1757–1827), for Dante’s Inferno; Wikimedia Commons, public domain, {{PD-US-expired}}.
Protestant pagans are everywhere in the post-Christian West.