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Alex Ross noted a couple months ago that the Metropolitan Opera’s new $16m Ring cycle was beginning . Is this a good use of resources in tough times? he asks. He makes a good try at arguing that Wagner, at least, is opera for everyone (Wagner’s views on the relationship of art to society were [...]
Archive for the ‘Sports’ Category
November 29th, 2010
Category: Arts and Cultural Policy, Arts reviews, Music, Popular Culture, Rhetoric and Framing, Sports, Technology and Society, Uncategorized
October 20th, 2010
Nancy Pelosi v. George W. Bush in the World Series? Maybe.
September 29th, 2010
Category: Sports
Improvised soccer balls provide humbling reminder of the resilience and ingenuity of millions of people.
September 12th, 2010
Intercollegiate athletics (IA) continues to be a sore spot at Berkeley and at other schools caught up in the positional arms race wherein school A spending on sports for a few scholarship athletes is determined by the willingness of other schools B,C,… in its conference to throw more educational resources on the pyre. For example, [...]
September 4th, 2010
Category: Sports
I love it when evenly matched opponents go up against each other in a sporting contest that either could win, and where both sides have to be at their absolute best right up to the last minute. The problem is that you might lose, so instead today Cal rented a bunch of players from the [...]
July 10th, 2010
Category: Sports
Did he owe something to the Cavs, or to Cleveland? What, exactly? And why?
July 9th, 2010
Category: Moral philosophy, Sports
…has every right to work anywhere he wants. He’s under no legal obligation to northeast Ohio; this is obviously advice for chumps and losers. If he thinks the $28m he made there last year is cramping his style, it’s the American way to add to it. I myself have no conception how to spend a [...]
July 8th, 2010
Category: Popular Culture, Sports
For LeBron enthusiasists, some wise words from beyond the grave.
June 26th, 2010
Go Black Stars!
June 18th, 2010
Category: Psychology, Sports
Ron Artest, the NBA’s most famous post-Rodman head case, thanks his psychiatrist, who deserved it.
