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Conservatives love war, as long as it remains sublime in Burke’s sense, with violence, pain and death seen at a distance.
6:17 PM Oct 26th
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Can language plumb the same depths in electronic form that it can in print? Does poetry need paper? Don DeLillo wonders.
4:20 PM Oct 24th
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Bob Geldof and Bono used Live Aid to rescue their careers. They sincerely wished to help Ethiopians, too. But did they?
2:43 AM Oct 20th
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Wisdom? Depth? Self-criticism? "Gone with the Wind" offers little of it. But it reminds you of the reader you once were.
1:51 AM Oct 18th
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<b>Joan Sutherland</b>, who thrilled the world with dazzling technique, vocal clarity, and finesse, is dead at age 83.
10:31 AM Oct 11th
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Scientists may offer evolutionary explanations of why we savor art, but science cannot give us the experice of art.
9:21 AM Oct 4th
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China is teetering on the verge of its own lost decade. It will make Japan’s economic malaise look like child’s play.
2:29 AM Oct 3rd
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Fairy tales literalize metaphor, lowering their glittering buckets deep into the psyche’s well. The Brothers Grimm...
10:43 AM Oct 1st
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The revolution will not be tweeted. Twitter did little for recent events in Iran. Facebook didn't give Moldova freedom.
3:29 AM Sep 28th
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Wagner's Ring is easy to ridicule. So why, after the snickering dies away, do people still line up to hear this music?
5:24 AM Sep 27th
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Socrates sure knew how to ask awkward questions and annoy people. The endless pursuit of Truth made him too many enemies.
4:03 AM Sep 25th
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Cancer isn’t a noun. It is not something you have, it is something you do. Maybe your body is cancering all the time.
4:34 AM Sep 23rd
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Meredith Maran accused her dad of sexual molestation, which he denied. It took years, but she finally saw who was lying.
4:00 AM Sep 21st
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Jonathan Franzen’s juvenile prose, with uses of “sucked” and “very into,” creates a world of essential insignificance.
2:07 PM Sep 20th
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@ You have to go to aldaily to find out. Soooo inconvenient, I know. D. Dutton
4:57 AM Sep 18th
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Okay to hate the Pope. Anti-Catholic prejudice is one of the main themes of today’s increasingly conformist imagination.
4:55 AM Sep 18th
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It’s a pattern: a fiery op-ed, full of striking anecdotes but unripe ideas and bad logic, has become a much worse book.
4:16 AM Sep 17th
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Roger Ebert claimed, "Video games can never be art." Oh yeah? A bunch of nerds and critics disagree. See Nota Bene at
3:07 AM Sep 16th
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No species of animal outside of Homo sapiens rears the young of other species and supports them into old age.
1:49 AM Sep 14th
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Greece’s current debt is about a quarter of a million dollars for each working adult. So beware of Greeks bearing bonds.
6:16 PM Sep 9th
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