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Reading The Crisis of Culture by Olivier Roy
Suppose that in North America and Europe and Australia (I am wary of trying to speak for other places I know less well) we are experiencing a loss of…
Feb 10
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He is beyond satire
Mangeur de hot-dogs
Feb 5
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Representation and portrayal at the BBC
At home we watch a lot of BBC-produced television.
Feb 4
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Equality, the arts, and the problem of expensive tastes
Yesterday Rebecca Lowe mentioned in a note how much she enjoys reading the philosopher G.A.
Jan 28
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Cultural Policy: What don't we know?
This past week I’ve been sent different, interesting takes on the state of cultural policy research.
Jan 22
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Reading Laura Field's Furious Minds
This is an important and very good book on the state of American conservative thought, and how over the past ten years it came to fully adopt Donald…
Jan 12
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Concessions prices: there oughtta be a law?
A reader, Kevin, asks if I had seen this new report by Brian Shearer at Vanderbilt University on legal remedies for high prices charged by different…
Jan 6
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John Carey's "What Good are the Arts?"
Literary critic and academic John Carey died last week at the age of ninety-one. I always enjoyed reading his reviews. If you hadn’t already guessed how…
Dec 18, 2025
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