Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Google Loses App Store Lawsuit – A Win For Creators
Epic had accused Google of restricting smartphone makers, wireless carriers, and app developers from providing any competition to the Play store, which accounts for...
How The Ballpoint Pen Changed Writing
No need of handwriting? Surely there must be some reason I keep finding pens everywhere. - The Atlantic
For First Time, Netflix Shares Data On What We’re Watching
The report, titled “What We Watched,” includes viewership data for the movies and television shows watched on the streaming service between January and June 2023. - Washington...
Creative Disruption That Creates More Than It Destroys
Firms that generate nondisruptive creation lead with agency. Rather than start with the chessboard, they envision what could be and what should be, irrespective...
Should London Build A Sphere Like The One In Las Vegas?
Madison Square Garden Entertainment (MSG), the organisation behind the venue, wanted to build a Sphere on a former coach park at Stratford in east...
Motion Picture Association Appeals To Congress For New Piracy-Fighting Measures
The MPA wants legislation that would enable content companies to seek court injunctive relief that would require internet service providers and other intermediaries to disable access...
Tech Always Changes Previous Realities. Fakes And Lies Abound
We are confined to reality, but we cannot confront facts (or even make sense of them) without the salve of fiction. As Joan Didion...
In-Flight Entertainment Has Become Huge Business
The in-flight entertainment and connectivity market grew to US$5.9 billion as of 2019, a testament to its economic impact on both the airlines and...
How Twitter Changed The News
That split between the big audience on Facebook and the influential audience on Twitter was instantly obvious to anyone in any newsroom who ever cared to look. - The...
Do You See/Hear/Smell What I Do? (Probably Not)
New research is uncovering the hidden differences in how people experience the world. The consequences are unsettling. - Aeon
The University Uncancelled
The portrait of a cowed institution has little in common with the reality of campus politics. The truth is that a university, like any...
The Skeptical Neurologist: Does Simply Visiting A Museum Provide Health Benefits?
The question is whether art exposure, alone, is enough to reap its benefits. In other words, does the simple fact of being in contact...
A Difference Of Opinions Is Not Fatal (Or Shouldn’t Be)
The most obvious pitfall of contrarianism is that, just like following the crowd, it outsources your judgement to others, albeit in rejection rather than...
English National Opera Is Victim To The Notion That The Point Of Art Is...
Opera’s contribution to health and welfare, its ability to improve lives, is a happy by-product. It is not the point. It is not opera’s job to do...
Great Book Covers You’ll Never See (And Why)
Ultimately, when you see a book cover in a store or online, you’re really just seeing the tip of the iceberg. Because at most...
How To Judge A Translation
A bad doctor and an uncircumspect translator are both bad in proportion to the good that they would be able to perform if they...
Learning To Conduct, One “Nutcracker” (And Apprentice) At A Time
If Philadelphia Ballet’s fledgling apprenticeship program needed a success story to tout, Na zir McFadden is it. After his ballet post, the Philadelphian landed a plum:...
The Rise Of YouTube Charity Porn. Philanthro-tainment?
Charity content on YouTube and most recently TikTok has always been a formulaic and nearly surefire way to gain likes and views. While these...
Report: Access To Local News Declined Substantially In 2023
Residents in more than half of U.S. counties have very limited access to a reliable local news source. More than two newspapers a week...
When The Oakland A’s Danced “Nutcracker”
The most charming and enduring tradition was the collaboration between the Oakland A’s and Oakland Ballet, which from the mid-1980s through the 1990s paired...
This Year’s Golden Globe Nominees
This year, any discussion of Golden Globe snubs and surprises ought to start with the show itself, since this once-snubbed awards ceremony has engineered...
Michael Brodeur’s Best Classical Music List Of 2023
"Although orchestras and opera companies are still struggling to regain and retain their pre-pandemic audiences, 2023 was a year with so much to hear...
3,700 Versions Of “Silent Night”
George Plasketes, a professor of media studies and popular culture at Auburn University, called the song “almost like comfort food.” Much like “Amazing Grace,”...
Free Speech And The Complicated American University
The real problem was that none of these university leaders made a clear, coherent case for their institutions’ values. So when they did invoke...
Do Kids Even Know How To Use A Dictionary In The Age Of Siri?
A terrifying thought occurred to me. “Do you even know how to use a dictionary?” This was my second son, and it turned out...
