Until this Sunday, January 13, three panels from Lorenzo Ghiberti’s Gates of Paradise will be on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art . For those Americans who have never been to the Baptistery in Florence, and who don’t plan on visiting Italy any time soon, the exhibition provides . . . . Continue Reading »
No, not a cure, but a potentially efficacious treatment to reduce symptoms and maintain cognition. The Journal of Neuroinflammation reports that fifteen Alzheimer’s patients received substantial benefit from being treated with a drug normally used to alleviate rheumatoid arthritis symptoms. . . . . Continue Reading »
I mean, Godzilla, I Am Legend, King Kong . Enough with the monsters and the pillaging. Now this ! Didn’t Lady Liberty suffer enough in Planet of the Apes ? Ach! Photos culled from originalprop.com . . . . . Continue Reading »
A careful reader wrote to complain. My recent web essay on General Education at Harvard cited the following from the Final Report: “The aim of liberal education is to unsettle presumptions, to defamiliarize the familiar, to reveal what is going on beneath and behind appearances, to disorient . . . . Continue Reading »
My teenager was reading the Lego catalog. Not that she herself would ever be interested in her brothers’ geeky obsessions, mind you—she had some Latin sentences waiting to be parsed. So she was idly turning pages and clucking dismissively over the Mindstorms NXT and the Star Wars . . . . Continue Reading »
Advanced Cell Technology made huge international headlines last year by claiming to have created embryonic stem cell lines without destroying embryos. That announcement—typical of ACT PR—was way overblown. It turned out to be a modest proof of principle type experiment that had . . . . Continue Reading »
You’ll recall that Mitt Romney was a socially liberal governor who realized that he was socially conservative just about the time he decided to run for president. He then campaigned as a movement conservative, until he lost the Iowa caucus. Looking around, Romney noticed that Barack Obama, . . . . Continue Reading »
Earlier this week, I pointed out that 2 of the 3 major American newspapers had taken the Democratic presidential candidates to task over their positions on the “surge.” In today’s Wall Street Journal , Senators John McCain and Joe Lieberman write that ” The Surge Worked . . . . Continue Reading »
Over at the Weekly Standard , Matthew Continetti is running a blog that has become must-reading for election junkies, campaign activists, and political journalists. The rest of America, too. And this, despite the fact that I sometimes contribute small notes on items that seem off-topic for the . . . . Continue Reading »
So brave, our transgressive artists who stand up against the oppression of religion. So brave—except when, you know, it might take actual bravery. Over at Pajamas Media, David Rusin notes the case of Grayson Perry: A Turner Prize recipient and England’s most famous cross-dressing potter, . . . . Continue Reading »
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