Art and the Smartphone
Could we ban cell phone photography in museums and at performances?
The Courage to Forget
Posted on October 26, 2023
in THR Web Features
Image: THR illustration; Annie Spratt/Unsplash.
Memories are important because—and when—they are selective, and few.
Had Any Candidate Explanations Recently?
Posted on October 19, 2023
in THR Web Features
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
in THR Web Features
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
in THR Web Features
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.
The Tiny, Grammar-Bound Island
by
Sue Curry Jansen
and
Jeff Pooley
Posted on October 10, 2023
in THR Web Features
Image: Susanne K. Langer in 1945 and various editions of her books; THR illustration.
Much of what we know is unspeakable, and language is but one expressive medium.
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