Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Canada Offered Tax Credits For News Subscribers. It Hasn’t Really Worked
Rather than prompting new subscribers to sign up, “the people who would have subscribed anyway are using the credit.” Subscribers weren’t swayed because they...
Why The Netflix Bubble Is Finally Bursting
Netflix has nearly 222 million subscribers around the world, more than any other streaming company, and just last month it was forecasting eventually growing to half...
Big News: Scientists Are Redefining The Second (And It Affects Many Things)
For the first time in more than a half-century, scientists are in the throes of changing the definition of the second, because a new...
How AI Could Revolutionize Teaching
New tools could include an AI-powered virtual teaching assistants that help teachers to grade homework and provide real-time feedback to students, or that assist...
Could Subscriptions Take Over In The Gaming World?
Subscription and cloud gaming represents just 4% of North America and Europe game markets, or roughly $3.7 billion, according to a recent study Harding-Rolls. Of...
What Happens To Art And Culture In The Middle Of War
Unfortunately, targeting cultural treasures is nothing new in times of war, and history shows that there are often specific and deliberate motives for the...
Archaeologists Find Enormous Underground City In Turkey
The newly unearthed Midyat city dwarfs Derinkuyu in comparison. It could hold at least 60–70,000 people. - ARTnews
Inside A Bombed Ukrainian Cultural Center, Where Residents Have Taken Refuge
Much of the palace seemed like a snapshot of what was now a distant past: a bandoneon abandoned in a debris-filled room, along with...
A Brooklyn Theatre’s Idea About Reinventing Subscriptions
“It got me thinking about, essentially, what would a theatre company look like that could break with the traditional modes of arts funding? You...
Elon Musk, Famous Twitter Troll. Will Troll Takeover Take Down Twitter?
I don’t imagine that one will wake up and open Twitter and see it magically transformed into a total cesspool of hate, harassment, and...
The Warm Mental Bath Of Believing In Conspiracy Theories
Can people who live in fantasy worlds at such steep odds with reality be good friends and citizens themselves? At the very least, maintaining...
Have You Been Wondering What The Metaverse Is Supposed To Be?
To help you get a sense of how vague and complex a term “the metaverse” can be, here's an exercise: Mentally replace the phrase...
Just What Kind Of Impact Does Social Media Have On Real Events?
Gestures such as incorporating a Ukrainian flag into one’s username may be merely symbolic, but when users lobby politicians online, donate money, or even...
Let’s Talk About the Concept Of “Lived Experience”
It’s essentially a turf war. Only Latino authors can write novels about Latinos. Only Holocaust survivors can convey the truth of the Holocaust. Only...
An Astonishing 1,600 School District Book Bans In The Past Nine Months
"What is happening in this country in terms of banning books in schools is unparalleled in its frequency, intensity, and success," said Jonathan Friedman,...
Americans Are Abandoning Big Cities
In the past three years, the net number of moves out of Manhattan has increased tenfold. In every urban county within the metros of...
The UK Dance Company Working To Create Opportunities For Dancers Of Color
Bourne’s 2017 research found that across four major British ballet companies — the Birmingham Royal Ballet, the Northern Ballet, the Royal Ballet and the English National...
Comedy Dying? I Think Not, Says Jon Stewart
“Comedy survives every moment.” And good thing it does, Stewart said, because “comedy doesn’t change the world, but it’s a bellwether. We’re the banana...
The Demons Inside The Internet
There are ways in which the internet really does seem to work like a possessing demon. We tend to think that the internet is...
How 20th Century Literary Analysis Came To Be
In the prewar period, university professors were apt to make vague aesthetic judgments about a book’s “beauty” or “soul” before lobbing in a few...
Writing About Nature: Science Or Poetry?
Natural history can certainly accommodate a profusion of perspectives – indeed, it will always benefit from greater diversity in how we look and think....
That Obnoxious Nissan Youth Orchestra Ad? This New Brunswick Orchestra Films A Perfect Response
The musicians’ response, recorded April 4, 2022, at the Imperial Theatre in St. John, New Brunswick, proves that age isn’t a barrier to playing...
Real Inflation: Concert Ticket Prices
Ticket prices increased 11% in 2021 relative to 2019, and 14% in North America, according to Live Nation Entertainment Inc., the world’s largest concert promoter. And...
Man Threatened To Bomb Merriam-Webster For Changing Definitions Of Gender
He sent anonymous comments and messages to Merriam-Webster, which publishes a widely used online dictionary, condemning the company for changing the definitions of words...
Gen Z: Not So In To Traditional Work
Many have taken to declaring how they don’t have dream jobs since they “don’t dream of labor.” This buzzy phrase, popularized on social media in the...
