"What I soon discovered was that none of them had much idea how to make an argument in any context. Nor were they particularly skilled at analysing the arguments of others. They didn’t know how to read; they didn’t know how to write; and they didn’t know how to think." - Unherd
My Russian training prompted a question: How could a situation where everyone was morally bound to agree help overcome a collectivist mindset? Freedom and democracy, after all, depend on legitimate differences of opinion. - First Things
Most of the time, when we translate something, we think about the act of translation as changing the meaning that comes from one language and conveying it in another language. But the act of translation, particularly in writing, becomes complicated if there is technically no written equivalent of ASL. - LitHub
Mya Bishop first launched her petition earlier this week, which has already received over 10,000 signatures, asking the public to "urge" the college to "cancel the play." - Newsweek
The region of Svaneti, a pair of protected valleys high in the Caucasus Mountains, was where the rest of the country sent its finest work when the armies of Byzantium or Persia or the Ottomans or Russia came a-conquering. Here's a look at where those treasures are kept today. - Apollo
What are the alternatives to corporate arts partnerships with links to fossil fuels? (Because, let’s face it, once you start looking, coal, oil and gas connections across the corporate sector are not hard to find.) - ArtsHub
A Chinese-Indonesian who made his fortune in poultry, Tek, through avid collecting, helped provide artists with livelihoods, and his generous loan policy helped those artists get seen. He founded the Yuz Museum in Shanghai and arranged major partnerships between the Yuz, LACMA, and the Qatar Museums. - ARTnews
As cities become more dense—moving in the direction of the “15-minute city,” where offices and simple errands are a short walk or bike ride away from home—designs like the superblock become more feasible. - Fast Company
"The tombs, which are believed to have housed senior officials from the Old Kingdom and First Intermediate period, date back to as long ago as 2700 BC. ... Archaeologists found not only well-preserved paintings, but also small statues and pottery as well as stone and wooden coffins." - Deutsche Welle
Cultural institutions are left having to figure out not only which policies are right to protect their patrons, but which ones their patrons want, and which ones they will accept. (This will vary mainly on whether the audience is mostly older, or mostly younger.) - The Globe and Mail (Canada)
Art Spiegelman: "This is the most Orwellian version of society I've ever lived in." Margaret Atwood: "They're playing woke snowflakery back." Hamid Ismailov: "I'm the most widely published Uzbek, yet nobody can mention my books. It's a total ban of my name, of activity, of books, of existence." - The Guardian
The progressive wins are a development that looked unlikely as the right wing, often through organizations with connections to wealthy Republican donors, has introduced bill after bill in states across the country. - The Guardian
As bad as things often got after the wars started in 2003, art and artists in Iraq's capital never went completely dormant. Now galleries are starting to open and some artists who fled abroad are returning home. - Artnet
On Servant of the People, Volodomyr Zelensky played a teacher who becomes president after a video of him fuming about corruption goes viral. Ashley Fetters Maloy points out three key things the series shows us about Ukraine and why life ended up imitating a sitcom. - MSN (The Washington Post)
