Second issue of The Raven, hot off the presses: https://t.co/qNcn8vRJzi, Including a never-before published essay by Mary Midgley, written for BBC radio but rejected as a “trivial, irrelevant intrusion of domestic matters into intellectual life".
"Duchamp described the infrathin as 'the warmth of a seat which has just been left'.... Through Cornelia Parker’s work, we perceive the infrathinness of most of what defines civilization, from status to faith." https://t.co/074AtM04KZ
"Their collective fixation on her irrefutably mainstream sentencing practices in cases involving child sexual abuse imagery—a topic seemingly plucked from thin air because there was nothing of substance for them to complain about — verged on the unhinged."
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Peter Svidler: "Let's at least get some things stated live on air. I do not agree with the war my country is waging in Ukraine. I do not believe Ukraine, or Ukrainian people, are my enemies, or anybody's enemies"
#FIDEGrandPrix#c24live
After Sen. Ted Cruz called the Jan. 6 insurrection “a violent terrorist attack,” Tucker Carlson threw a fit. The senator then appeared on Fox News to apologize.
NEWS: To mark #Amherst200, Amherst College will make a special $200,000 donation to two of the @TownOfAmherst's important institutions, the historic @JonesLibraryMA and the new arts and cultural performance venue The Drake. https://t.co/mbZVBb37Xo