You’re Right — Things Are Worse Now Than They Were 60 Years Ago
Sixty years after Kennedy’s speech to Congress, you’d be hard pressed to find anyone willing to make the case that accomplishing hard tasks, solving...
The Difficulty Of Organizing University Professors
One challenge many faculty members faced was lack of practical knowledge. Almost invariably, we found faculty unable to think outside of the framework for...
Conspiracy Theory Du Jour: The “Live” Internet Died Five Years Ago
Dead-internet theory suggests that the internet has been almost entirely taken over by artificial intelligence. Like lots of other online conspiracy theories, the audience...
What Will Happen Now To Afghanistan’s Biggest Broadcaster?
"'I'm still surprised we are up and running,' said Saad Mohseni, Tolo's co-owner. … Whether its menu of pop music and female television hosts...
Why We Work Too Much
The ubiquity of overwork is a serious obstacle for many of the ideas about how we might reshape our professional lives in the months...
‘Rodeo Clowns Are The Best Athletes In The Arena, And They Save Lives’
"Their work is just as dangerous and exciting as the bull riders they're employed to protect. Working in teams, their job is to distract...
Disney Doesn’t Want Frank Oz To Make Muppets Anymore
“They don’t want me because I won’t follow orders and I won’t do the kind of Muppets they believe in,” he continued. Just how...
American Speech Isn’t Getting Coarser, It’s Getting Softer And More Polite (F-Bombs Notwithstanding)
John McWhorter: "The grand old four-letter words seem to be used as punctuation, … (and) Twitter is full of people being recreationally nasty. Yet...
What You Say You Know…
As near as I can figure, when I claim to know something, I am only announcing to myself or to others that henceforth I...
Prices For Vintage Video Games Are Getting Insane
Just over the past year, the record price for a copy of a game has risen by a factor of almost 20, from $114,000...
China Restricts Kids’ Video Game-Playing
Gamers aged below 18 will be limited to one hour of online game play, between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. on Friday, Saturday and...
In Louisiana, Someone’s Finally Teaching Genuine Cajun French
The state has been working to revive French for decades — but the language taught in schools has been the standardized variety, very different...
A New Company Rises From The Ashes Of Aspen Santa Fe Ballet
"A group of performers from the shuttered Aspen Santa Fe Ballet company have founded the new contemporary company DanceAspen and will debut new work...
Lloyd Dobyns, Anchor of ‘NBC News Overnight’ And ‘Weekend’, Dead At 85
He attracted national attention in the 1970s for his waggish style hosting NBC’s Weekend, where he was joined by the equally irreverent Linda Ellerbee....
Apple Buys Classical Streaming Service Primephonic — And Shuts It Down
The tech giant will take Primephonic offline next week and, it says, work on integrating the service's catalog and specialized search engine, with a...
Gary Graffman And Jennifer Higdon Leave Curtis Institute Faculty
Graffman, now 92 and formerly the music school's director and president, had been its leading piano teacher, with Yuja Wang and Lang Lang among...
A Giant Puppet Is Traveling Across Europe To Highlight The Plight Of Refugees. She’s...
Little Amal, a 20-foot representation of a nine-year-old Syrian refugee girl, is being walked by her handlers from Gazantiep, Turkey to Manchester, England. A...
Uruguay Gets Its First Contemporary Art Museum
The Museo de Arte Contemporâneo Atchugarry, now under construction in the exclusive seaside resort town of Punta del Este, is being built and funded...
The Fate Of Artists And Culture Workers Under The Taliban
A vibrant, educated, outward-looking civil society formed, and many Afghans facing Taliban 2.0 have no memory of the shockingly brutal Taliban regime that fell...
Attempts To Fix A Mies van der Rohe Masterpiece – A Disaster As A...
As a museum, it has always been a disaster. Ever since it opened, the New National Gallery has been dogged by cracking windows, heavy...
A Genre Of Books Promises To make You Smarter. True?
Most of the time, thinking sounds like hard work, but add “smart” to the front and it sounds more attractive: hipsterishly mid-Atlantic, vaguely technological...
The Thriving Book Community On TikTok
BookTok is a hashtag on TikTok, where readers post videos of book recommendations, talk about writing novels and make reading-related jokes. The hashtag...
The Societal Benefits Of Public Nudity
According to a series of surveys conducted by researchers at the University of London, not only did those who engaged in naturism have higher...
Rite Of Passage: Now There Are Academic Citations For TikTok
The iconic MLA Handbook has added an entry for TikTok, so Noam Chomsky 2.0s, who need to cite videos from the social media powerhouse,...
Why We Need Poetry Right Now
Indeed, in our age of social media, words are often used as weapons. Poetry instead treats words with care. - The New York Times
