The Public and Private, Once Again
Encryption offers a false substitute for real solutions—something that is the moral equivalent of vigilante force when what we need is better government and law.
Governing for the Common Good
The Hedgehog's Array: January 23, 2015
Posted on January 23, 2015
in THR Web Features
Noteworthy reads from the last week.
Recognizing Art
Posted on January 22, 2015
in THR Web Features
Image: The Battle of the Pictures (1745) by William Hogarth (British, London 1697–1764 London), Gift of Sarah Lazarus, 1891; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
When El Greco heard the insultingly low valuation for his work, he launched a long and bitter court battle that quietly changed the perception of artists and art in Spain.
Miss Manners and Mr. Manspreader
“To some,” said Richard Duffy in 1922, “the very word etiquette is an irritant.” It still is. Exhibit A: “manspreading.”
The Thin Reed of Humanism
It's at the margins of our established ways of engaging our world and ourselves that new ways of seeing and imagining what it is to be human so often emerge.
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