Looked at now, Stalin’s kitsch propaganda films seem like parodies. Yet very few people laughed at the time... more»
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How to win an argument: all you need know was sketched out by Schopenhauer long ago. Logic? Forget about it... more»
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A.J. Liebling admired above all gallant soldiers, hard-working boxers who knew their craft, and con men who showed panache... more»
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A book on the number 13 that costs £13: expensive for some of clippings, emails, and hours on the web. But Google makes us all scholars... more»
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Why is American culture so closed off? The more it imposes itself on the world, the more foreign the world becomes... more»
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The New Yorker cartoon is an agent of corruption far more insidious than LSD or the electric guitar... more»
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Bad film directors have no ideas, good ones have too many. But great directors have just one idea to guide them on their way... more»
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Freethinkers all: Tom Paine, Susan Anthony, Margaret Sanger, Clarence Darrow. But does their history make a story?... more»
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Okay, maybe Lucrezia Borgia was the greatest whore in all of Rome. But incest with her dad, the Pope? Not likely... more»
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