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It didn't have to be this way.

21 hours ago 3 votes
How the Moving Image Has Become the Medium of Record: Part 2

This piece picks up where Part 1 of Peter Kaufman’s article left off yesterday… The epistemological nightmare we seem to be in, bombarded over our screens and speakers with so many moving-image messages per day, false and true, is at least in part due to the paralysis that we – scholars, journalists, and regulators, but […]

21 hours ago 2 votes
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18 hours ago 1 votes
Bob Dylan Explains Why Music Has Been Getting Worse

One often hears that there’s no money to be made in music anymore. But then, there was no money to be made in music when Bob Dylan started his career either—at least according to Bob Dylan. “If you could just support yourself, you were doin’ good,” he says in an interview clip included in the […]

19 hours ago 1 votes
Do We Need to Disagree?

Cato VS Caesar

9 hours ago 1 votes