The cultural cognoscenti and the CIA fought the Cultural Cold War side by side, with the Whitney Trust acting as a funding conduit. https://t.co/MRic2tEyXR via @JSTOR_Daily
Mark Van Doren warning against overspecialization. He saw this as detrimental to one’s education in the arts and humanities. The “specialist can be ignorant of the very field he claims to master.”
‘Marriage Story’: Noah Baumbach On How His ‘Extremely Personal’ Movie Became His Most Ambitious – IndieWire https://t.co/97Kwt4h2TT. This riveting interview makes me all the more eager to see Noah Baumbach’s new film. The word of mouth has been spectacular.
Great editorial in today's Times about Trump's strategy of distraction. He'll make these four congresswomen the subject of the next election, rather than his own sordid self, and they'll be made to stand for the whole Democratic Party. No wonder the whole spineless GOP backs him.
@PamelaPaulNYT Astonishing, especially since colorization of b & w movies fell into such bad odor that the practice was more or less discontinued. Also amazing that they restored the whole hundred hours, not just the edit they used.