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How a Vulture Class Scapegoated The American Government
Why do we celebrate the outlaw Jesse James as a knight fighting predator banks and corporations while at the same time embracing the people who have devoured the middle class?
How Paintings Can Show More Than We Can Take In
Two 15th Century paintings at New York City's Frick Collection suggest the way memory paints and repaints what we see, so that when we return to look at a painting-or anything or anyone-it is never the same experience.
An Obnoxious Regency Character Who Fits Right in on Wall Street
Jane Austen's Emma is a prequel of every exhibitionist today: she takes up too much room, is a bullying fixer, and moves people around like pawns. Sunday nights on 'Masterpiece Theater,' her latest iteration shows why Austen is a modernist.
Leadbelly, Famed for Singing The Blues, Remains a Neglected Poet
He isn't exactly the father of the blues, not like Blind Lemon Jefferson, but he wrote some of the strangest and most beautiful lyrics in American literature.
While the bubble grew, the press gave us trivia
In this stunning overview, On the Threshold-of What?, he makes the case that opacity is more than an annoyance. This is the point I want to elaborate.
