Category: Arts

The Master of the Nuclear War Machine

You take some Jew and treat him lousy his whole life. You treat him like…

The Mysterious Disappearance of a Revolutionary Mathematician

While living in an internment camp in Vichy France, Alexander Grothendieck was tutored in mathematics…

A Self-Taught Artist’s Mastery and Pain

Matthew Wong was a brilliant Canadian painter who died by suicide at the age of…

What’s The Language of Thought, That A Person May Grasp It?

by David J. Lobina: What I really mean, of course, is what The Language of…

Simon & Garfunkel’s The Sound of Silence (Video)

Shared by Khalid Sharif, London: I often wondered why the lyrics say “Hello darkness my…

Harmonium Rocks (Video)

Tajdar e haram: A soulful performance by a street singer with harmonium (also called Reed…

How to cultivate creativity as an adult, according to an expert

Mary Elizabeth Williams in Salon: Creativity is an essential element of the human condition. Yet unlike…

Best Political Cartoons Weekending May 1, 2022

Selected By DesPardes (Home & Abroad) Editors and Contributors Including From Among WhatsApp Shares Daily:

The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is

Trevor Quirk at Bookforum on Justin E. H. Smith’s Philosophical History Of The Internet: The…

Journey From India To The Two Cambridges And Berkeley And Beyond

by Pranab Bardhan: Gérard Roland came to Berkeley only around the turn of this century….

Tell Me About the Blues

By Bill Benzon: What is the blues? It is a mood, a feeling, a sensibility….

Political Cartoons Weekending April 24, 2022

Best political cartoons pick weekending April 24, 2022: More here.