The peculiar modern obsession with celebrity voyeurism is typically unattractive but often instructive: one can argue that our preoccupation with fame signifies the persistant recognition of Aristotle’s magnanimity, albeit in a deformed version, against the regnant leveling tendencies of . . . . Continue Reading »
On the main page of CULTURE 11, Michael Brendan Dougherty has written an incisive if obvious criticism of the excellent TV show MAD MEN: It’s not a nostalgic or even balanced look at the greatness and misery of the white and prosperous urban American early . . . . Continue Reading »
. . . and the ghost of Barry Goldwater sheds a tear. . . . . Continue Reading »
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