arts and culture
Drowning with our money belts: Putting profits before people in time of crisis
April 17, 2020Revisiting the wisdom of fables is not nostalgia for childhood; perhaps, instead, it is the imperative self-critical practice that will reconnect us to the wisdom we possessed as children.
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‘Slaying Goliath’: Diane Ravitch on the fight to save America’s public schools
April 15, 2020Diane Ravitch writes with anger—but it’s righteous anger, it’s justified and it’s what we need right now.
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‘Ozark’ and middle-class life under pressure; Dr. Freud in ‘Vienna Blood’
April 14, 2020Both series skirt the potentially most shocking and damning aspect of the young Freud’s discoveries, the incest he found, through an examination of his female patients, lurking at the heart of the Viennese upper-middle-class bourgeois order.
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What does a hero look like? See ‘El Pepe: A Supreme Life’
April 8, 2020At first glance, he’s a gnarled, wizened, disheveled, weather-beaten old man. He could use a trim and new clothes. He sits on a bench at his farm, the chickens pecking for insects in the ground around...
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Raphael, Italian painter and architect, High Renaissance harbinger of modernity
April 3, 2020The great Italian painter and architect, Raphael, died 500 years ago, on April 6, 1520.
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