From the New York Times: Why Good Writers Can Be Bad Conversationalists. Like most writers, I seem to be smarter in print than in person. In fact, I am smarter when I’m writing. I don’t claim this merely because there is usually no one around to observe the false starts and groan-inducing sentences that make [...]
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From the Times Higher Education: The Seven Deadly Sins of the Academy. When the historian David Starkey left the University of Cambridge in 1972, he told an interviewer that he “knew exactly how an ingrowing toenail felt”. There was something deeply dispiriting, he said, about “the sense of introversion, of knowing everyone”. The inward-looking, incestuous [...]
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Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans is recently opened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. We ran an article by Laura Bramon Good on the exhibit when it was at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. You can read the article here.
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One couple’s liturgy of the neighborhood – in Houston.
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Where to find the real New England autumn experience.
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Responding to Peter Singer’s model of human life valuation.
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From The Observer: The 50 best things to eat in the world, and where to eat them. From cake, steak and tapas, to oysters, chicken and burgers, Killian Fox roamed the world to find the 50 best things to eat and the best places to eat them in, with a little help from professionals like [...]
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From More Intelligent Life: Facts, Errors, and the Kindle. Nietzsche famously said that there are no such things as facts, only interpretations. Be that as it may, every writer knows that there are certainly such things as factual mistakes. Errors are common in all forms of media, but it is mistakes in the printed word [...]
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From the New Yorker: Happy Feet. At its most rarefied, shoe shopping still takes place in hushed, pastel-carpeted salons, with salesmen (they are usually men-one doesn’t like to think too closely about why) staggering under stacks of boxes and kneeling down to insure the perfect fit before whisking away the charge plates of their waiting [...]
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From the New York Times: Michael Pollan on Big Food vs. Big Insurance. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, three-quarters of health care spending now goes to treat “preventable chronic diseases.” Not all of these diseases are linked to diet – there’s smoking, for instance – but many, if not most, of [...]
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