Civic responsibility entails reading the news regularly, to keep abreast of the world's turnings. But does this practice actually improve…
"Clearly you are not a bowler": Can film do philosophy? Can philosophy do film?
Photography is under siege by the smartphone, the device that has made everyone a photographer while equally rendering all unable…
Finally some explanations why this play is so important!
Why do some works of art age better than others?
The promise of unnatural catastrophes turns out not to be catastrophic nor unnatural enough
Reflection on David Denby's critique of the Coen brothers' consistent misanthropy
Bodies impersonal but affective are instruments of memory.
Comments on the 1936 film Pépé le Moko, starring Jean Gabin, and set in the Casbah
Reflections on getting an iPhone