Douglas McLennan
Public TV Fundraising Telethons Are Losing Their Effectiveness
An analysis by Contributor Development Partnership of March pledge results reported a 24% decline in the number of gifts year-over-year, a nearly 5.5% drop...
Workers At The Whitney Museum Protest Wages At Gala
Workers at the museum rang bells, chanted, and cheered when taxi drivers and chauffeurs who just dropped off their employers honked in support of...
The Ways Disabilities Are Being Portrayed Are Changing
Children’s literature is definitely getting better at representation. Indeed, when I asked disabled friends and acquaintances to name their favourite disabled character, almost all...
The Morality Of Critics
Although perhaps you might say that literary critics in a certain sense are custodians of the language. I think there has been a tradition,...
Could a New $100 Million Movie Studio Transform Newark’s Economy?
One study estimated that the Newark project could bring as many as 600 long-term jobs and a constellation of new business opportunities to the...
How Our Memory Is Becoming More Specialized
Memorizing can become a highly specialized act, based on regular practice and rehearsal. A singer, though fully capable of performing the role of say...
Head Of Cannes’ First Tiktok Festival Jury Quits Over Concerns About Independence
“The difficulty is that TikTok is a marketing-focused company and fails to understand creators and their independence…They kept asking me for reports on our...
What It’s Like To Spend Your Life In Translation
To spend a lot of time with your head in dictionaries is to understand the extent to which your head is made up of...
What Cancer Therapy Is Teaching Us About The Vast Complexity Of The Human Condition
How can immunotherapy cure a 65-year-old, newly retired man of Stage IV lung cancer, restoring the promise of his golden years with his family,...
How Does Activist Art Fit In The Big Business Of Art Selling?
Can activism thrive within the strip-lit booths of essentially glorified trade shows? And does the commodification of protest art render its radical impulses null...
We Need A New Conversation About Music Powered By AI
We begin with the hypothesis that, due to the rate of growth and development of A.I. technology, #resistanceisfutile. Which is to say that computer-composed...
Guardian Readers Choose Their Favorite Modern Architecture
Buildings with plenty of personality - The Guardian
Greek Movie Composer Vangelis, 79
He won an Oscar for the stirring score to 1981's Chariots of Fire, which was followed by Blade Runner a year later. Paying tribute,...
How Toronto Movie Theatres Survived COVID
“We had a few fully-masked concerts. We did livestreaming. We had a couple of adverts filmed here. We sold takeout meal kits when we...
How Color Repeatedly Surprises Us
For some philosophers, the experience of color is most similar to that of pain: an internal state that resists quantification. But who wouldn’t rather...
Somehow The Internet Went Wrong. We Could Fix It
Many of us find ourselves in the alienating position of using (even relying on) technology companies we distrust and hate, knowing that they are...
This Year’s Tonys – A Cry For Normalcy
At the end of a bumpy Broadway season that started late and was repeatedly disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic, the once-ordinary rituals of Tonys time have...
Classics? How Do We Define Them?
A “classic” is not an entry on some fixed list of books. Most of the time itis just a term for older—let’s say >25...
Love Wordle? Well, Here’s Artle
A new game, Artle, launched by the National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington, DC, invites art lovers to guess the artist in four attempts...
The Einstein Franchise – Rapacious And Wealthy
Einstein had been a well-paid man. His Princeton salary of $10,000 – roughly $180,000 in today’s money – was set by the university to...
Dallas’ ATT Performing Arts Center Picks a New Director
Warren Tranquada, comes to Dallas from Newark, N.J., where for 13 years he has been executive vice president and chief operating officer of the...
Archaeologists Find 4,300-Year-old Egyptian Tomb
Expanding on an earlier excavation, the team discovered the tomb while digging within a dry moat that encircles the larger Step Pyramid of Djoser,...
How To Make Good Ideas Successful In Teams
The ideas that made it shared a process we came to call “voice cultivation”: the collective, social process through which employees help lower-power team...
Fascinating: Who’s Rich In America And What They Do
Comparing data from the appendix of the economists’ study with data from the SUSB Annual Data Tables put out by the Census Bureau, I...
Why Prosperity Doesn’t Make You Happy
True liberal education is the place where restless hearts can become discerning, and where the closed self can become an open soul. It is...