Apologies for the pun, but come on, are you not entertained? Apparently "quoting verbatim" is the new "lying," at least according to some people.
Month: October 2015
Authenticity is inherently meaningless as a criterion of value. Departures from tradition that improve something are no vice; upholding unworthy traditions is no virtue. Often, the concept is at least.
One of the many people who owe the West for all the benefits of colonialism and climate change Cass Sunstein said some no good, very bad things in his article.
The other day I was listening to an album by the great Irving Fields, the brilliant pianist who merged jazz, the sort of Jewish-American popular music I associate with Catskills resorts in the 1950s, and Latin music in the 1950s, making legendary albums like Bagels...