Bill Moyers, July 21, 1965. (Photo: Yoichi Okamoto / Wikimedia)
Culture & Media
Racism today has been both reconfigured and made invisible with regard to its real victims.
It’s obvious that if you repeat something often enough, in an authoritative voice, listeners will begin to believe what you say. That’s the theory behind both advertising…
Among things that TV did indeed change, Calvino suggests, is the way we view our leaders.
Angry, stupid and armed can turn out to be a pretty ridiculous combination.
The film is a letter from the liquid modern world and one I would dearly have wished to write myself.
The reduction of politics today to the simple matter of ensuring that blowhards can utter stupid things is truly pervasive.
Icelandic members of parliament have plans to transform their crisis-ridden North-Atlantic nation into a sanctuary for publishers, production companies and information technology firms from around the world.
Half a century has passed without Albert Camus’ poignant, nagging and prodding, provoking and invigorating comments.
The real tragedy of Tiger Woods’s career is that all he really modeled for young people and the larger public was the shallow notion that talent and fame…