Alissa Wilkinson
Alissa Wilkinson founded The Curator in 2008 and was its editor for two years until accepting a full-time faculty position at The King's College. She is also associate editor of Comment. Her work on pop culture, philosophy, politics, and fine art has appears in a number of publications, including Paste, Christianity Today, Prism, Patrol, WORLD, and Relevant.
Alissa harbors a not-so-secret obsession with cooking, farmer’s markets, and food policy; reads a lot of books; drinks a lot of herbal tea; and watches movies with her husband, Tom, in their tiny apartment high above the Brooklyn treetops.
From Newsweek: Popular Science: Beware False Claims. It is a sorry fact of science that many, many of the results reported even in peer-reviewed, published studies are wrong-by some accounts, most are wrong. By dumb luck (also known as statistical errors), something that seems to be associated with something else isn’t; something that seems to [...]
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From the Daily Intel: Why neo-conservative pundits love Jon Stewart. Back in April, when the debate over torture was roaring, Jon Stewart invited Cliff May, a national-security hawk and former spokesman for the Republican Party, to come on The Daily Show and defend waterboarding. May was hesitant. He thought Stewart would paint him as a [...]
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From n+1: How artists must dress. Artists must first of all distinguish themselves from members of the adjacent professional classes typically present at art world events: dealers, critics, curators, and caterers. They must second of all take care not to look like artists. This double negation founds the generative logic of artists’ fashion. The relationship [...]
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From the Wall Street Journal: The Internet As Art. Just as video and computer technology attracted pioneering artists in the 1960s and 1970s, the Internet today is inspiring artists to tinker with the possibilities and boundaries of the World Wide Web. What started as a playful and often tongue-in-cheek experimental venture by a few code-savvy [...]
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From the Toronto Star: The Net and our shrinking horizons: A study of how baby names spread in the U.S. suggests the Web isn’t so world wide after all. The rise of the Internet was supposed to create a global village in which people would be as likely to have friends in the antipodes as [...]
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The Hurt Locker: Dismantling the Summer Action Movie By Brian Watkins The Hurt Locker blows apart genre stereotypes. Star Trek in the Park By Jonathan Fitzgerald On two iconic storytellers and their surprising similarities. Snobbery and the True King Corn By Kevin Gosa Popcorn: buying, making, seasoning, and eating it.
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From Good: The Best and Worst Cities to Look for Work. I’d quote from it, but you just have to see it for yourself.
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From The New Yorker: Wilder Women. William Holtz points out that Laura had been so harried by poverty and hardship-doing some of the man’s work that Almanzo couldn’t manage, in addition to her own-that she might not have had much left to give, except the example of self-denial. Rose herself could be grandiose and domineering. [...]
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From the New York Times: Full Stomachs, and Full Marriages Too. The film is food porn. (Seriously, don’t come hungry.) And Ms. Streep’s performance as the vowel-elongating chef will probably earn her another bushel of accolades and give Ms. Ephron her first hit movie in more than a decade. But it is the film’s depiction [...]
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Love, Zombie-fied By Josh Cacopardo Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: the Classic Regency Romance – now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem! Harmony in the Middle East By Jenni Simmons The Band’s Visit is a whimsical, unsentimental look at the way things could be. The Thing About Bruno By Alisa Harris What makes Bruno different from those [...]
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