From the category archives:
Culture
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Culture
What is less clear is how people, ideas and practices become prominent in the first place, Schaller says. In baseball, performance is likely to provide
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Culture
This is a country whose music of choice is jazz; a country that long ago invented a genre called highlife that spread across Africa —
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Culture
More and more, “production” — that word my fellow economists have worked over for generations — has become interior to the human mind rather than
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Culture
[H]e approaches the classics without the apocalyptic vision of a culture warrior or the sort of popularizing sentiment that glibly reduces Aristotle to a self-help
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Culture
In her view, we have domesticated love past all recognition, turning what is rightly leonine, destructive, and majestic into a yawning, chubby house cat. Hers
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Culture
Nehring interrogates our steadfast insistence on balanced, healthy relationships, our readiness to condemn doomed, impossible entanglements. She argues that it may in fact be a
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Culture
“So the paradox is that the Web has invigorated criticism as an activity while undermining it as a profession,” Mr. Scott said.
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