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Internet Archive has made more than 1.3 million books available for free online, according to the complaint, which were scanned and available to one borrower at a time for a period of 14 day…
"TV has long had a police's-eye perspective that helps shape the way viewers see the world, prioritizing the victories and struggles of police over communities being policed. Order, a police…
Of late Matthew Flinders has been exploring the notion of "crisis fatigue," or the idea that after years of constant bad news, perhaps we've grown numb to warnings from politicians of yet mo…
Some 1,600 people reserved tickets in advance to see the Sistine Chapel and its sublime walls and ceilings on the first day the Vatican Museums opened to the public after a three-month coron…
Protesting. Even during a global pandemic. Think about that for a second. How furious do people have to be to gather in the streets at a time when a highly infectious disease is killing thou…
Social media essentially gives a megaphone to the extremes, so it's very hard to know what most people really think. "And when you look at the people who are loudest on Twitter and elsewhere…
"They describe a society that is clear-eyed about the disparities that have made this pandemic so much worse for some communities than for others. They call on us to sustain each other throu…
Arts Management graduate classes are offered on flexible schedules and taught by faculty from top arts organizations in the DC Metro area.
Much of the history of Western philosophy can be narrated as a series of attempts to construct systems. Conversely, much of the history of aphorisms can be narrated as an animadversion, a tu…
Ms. Stark Smith, whose signature braid became longer and grayer over time, was also a prolific writer and respected teacher who, beginning in 1990, developed what she called "Underscore," a …
Lionel Shriver, who is sixty-three, thinks people are ridiculous for congratulating themselves on enduring quarantine, when the worst is yet to come. "This is not the bad part," she said. " …
To live is to encounter the tragic " a reality shot through with utter strife, and covered in complete darkness. Despite our best attempts, we are not going to get out of it. For philosopher…
Over the years, the blockbuster has been frequently called into question, and with good reason. Do these shows really serve our audiences or do they just pander to the crowd in order to attr…
Melbourne Writers Festival seeks a creative and visionary Artistic Director to curate and deliver its annual festivals in 2021"2023.
"In our first performance one of our actors froze in the middle of her big solo. But, fortunately, we had planned for and built that into the piece, so what we did is skip to the next cue, a…
The current crisis has turned the industry's cracks into chasms, exposing the ways in which it fails its workers almost by design. It has also raised the question of what restaurants will lo…
"At the Paris Opéra, there were many colleagues to deal with and only the institution's most successful composers had enough clout to impose their will on a piece. It makes sense that Verdi…
Today the more relevant split is the more recent one between modern and contemporary fields (the latter has no exact date of origin"1968, 1980, 1989?), which is a schism less between the uni…
"I want stuff that has not been made in response to the pandemic, that would exist if we weren't all in the same boat. Or things I know I won't have time for once the real world begins to ma…
For Kramer, who died at age 84 in Manhattan on Wednesday, not speaking up was a signal of a dishonorable combination " of cowardice, willful blindness and greed. He was constitutionally inca…
In ports of call known for their cruise appeal, the disappearance of boat-borne tourism has been greeted with mixed feelings. Many towns and cities depend in part on revenue from these vacat…
Arthur Brand estimates that a work of art in the criminal underworld is worth about 10 percent of its value in the legitimate art market " so if a painting might sell for $10 million at auct…
In 2018, the first British Minister for Loneliness was appointed and the government published A Connected Society. In the preface, the country's then prime minister Theresa May referred to r…
While thought experiments are as old as philosophy itself, the weight placed on them in recent philosophy is distinctive. Even when scenarios are highly unrealistic, judgments about them are…
In a shift of consumer patterns, in the first 16 weeks of the year, 47 percent of Italy's trade book sales, both in fiction and nonfiction, took place online. In the same period of 2019, onl…
