ArtsJournal: Arts, Culture, Ideas

Tag: 04.21

Music Of The Millennia: Sound And Music In Evolution

Pitch is an abstraction: any given note doesn’t have a real-world referent. The existence of flutes that produce a family of fixed notes, however,...

The Strange Concept Of The Polymath

"The Digital Age has supplied a vast overload of information. “A well-informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny,” wrote Thomas Jefferson. But are...

Lost Music, Lost Books, Lost Culture

"Most music from the past is lost. Written, performed, then fading into obscurity, like the millions of books in our libraries that no one...

How To Fix Our Online Dystopia? It’s A Design Problem

In this new wilderness, democracy is becoming impossible. If one half of the country can’t hear the other, then Americans can no longer have...
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