Opinion
The Hypocrisy of the Artistic and Critical Left
It’s time for us to ask why the industries with some of the loftiest ideals and the most vocal commitments to progressivism still far so far short of reasonable expectations.
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Columbia Students Can Paint, Watch TED Talks to Meet Sexual Respect Requirement
In the wake of a wave of protests over the school's mishandling of sexual assault cases, Columbia University recently unveiled a new Sexual Respect and Community Citizenship Initiative.
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Photographer Develops 31 Lost Film Rolls Taken by World War II Soldier
Photographer Levi Bettwieser has an unusual passion: he hunts down and develops old film rolls left inside vintage cameras or forgotten by their owners in the backs of musty drawers.
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Required Reading
This week, snow graffiti, free newspapers online, Jon Stewart on architecture, Photoshop at 25, Iranian beauty standards for women, Pussy Riot and Eric Garner, and more.
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Weekend Words: Brown
Now that Kate Brown has ascended to the governorship relinquished by the scandal-plagued John Kitzhaber, the neighboring states of Oregon and California each have a governor named Brown.
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The Utopian Dreams Behind the US Army's Prefab Prison Cells
This past November, the US Army discreetly announced that it is looking to develop “a holding cell for one detainee during combat operations.”
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Required Reading
This week, Anish Kapoor's new perpetual whirlpool, Ruscha's lost rock art, artists who stayed in Nazi Germany, Beck and Warhol, why the dollar sign is an S, and more.
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Weekend Words: Anchor
This week, two TV news anchors are going away.
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How Authors Are Killing Their Own Writing
As authors take to Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and other social media sites, the boundary keeping their personal and professional lives apart begins to blur.
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Everything Else Brian Williams Might Have Misremembered, in Memes
The most astute reaction to news anchor Brian Williams’s claim that he "misremembered" being present inside a US Army helicopter when it was shot down in Iraq can be found in a meme now ricocheting through the Twitter-verse.
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When Architecture Causes Suffering
The city of Buckeye, Arizona, recently got a glittering new supermax prison.
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Required Reading
This week, profiting from antiquities, public parks for billionaires, net neutrality, deleting the internet, the ethics of selfies, McDonalds that won't decay, and more.