Tag: Spring 2021
An Argument Against Our Meritocracy
It is obvious that “not everyone is born with the same academic gifts,” deBoer writes, but among teachers and educational officials there is a...
The Walkie-Talkie, Big Underpants, And The Bathtub: What Modernist Architecture’s Abhorrence of Imitation Has...
For centuries, great architecture involved innovation and invention within the context of established, tried-and-true styles, materials and techniques — and the result was buildings...
Guilty Pleasure? What’s So Guilty About It? “Low” Culture Has Triumphed
"Everything that was once considered lowbrow is now triumphant. It is still common for people to talk of “guilty” cultural pleasures—TV, dance music—about which...
Machines Will Save Us/Machines Will Kill Us — Time To Figure It Out
"We once obsessed about how to restrain machines we could not predict or control — now we worry about how to use machines to...