Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
The Rise Of Right Wing Comedy (And Why You Should Take It Seriously)
While liberals lost their way doing “Orange Man Bad” comedy during the Trump administration, a new ecosystem emerged of right-wing comedians—on podcasts, YouTube, and, yes,...
The Difficulties Of Protecting Cultural Heritage In War
“It’s still a way to erase identity,” said Corine Wegener, on why culture continues to be a major target in contemporary warfare. Some 200...
The Decline And Demise Of Print Magazines
This accelerating erosion has not been big news during a time of pandemic, war and actual erosion, and yet the absence of magazines authoritatively documenting...
Apple Finally Kills The Iconic iPod
The iPod debuted in 2001, and it changed everything. While other devices existed that let you carry around your MP3 collection, the iPod quickly...
Netflix Says Ad-Supported Streaming Will Debut Late This Year
Netflix offers a variety of payment tiers for streaming access; its most popular plan costs $15.49 a month. The new ad-supported tier will cost...
Google Has Turned Off Ability To Buy Kindle, Audible Books In The Amazon App
When you visit the Amazon app, you can still buy physical books, but digital purchases now show a "Why can't I buy on the...
AI Is Creating Art. But Is It, Really?
What discussions about AI and creativity often overlook is the fact that creativity is not an absolute quality that can be defined, measured and...
How Big Data “Nudges” Our Decisions
The combination of Big Data and the success of nudging could thus be conceived of not only as aid to our decision-making, but also...
How Ukraine Is Protecting The Kyiv Symphony Orchestra
The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense granted special permission for the male musicians to leave the country, calculating that the world will be more motivated...
What’s Happened To Fundraising Costs In The Pandemic
Whereas fundraising efforts in 2019 raised $6.22 for every fundraising dollar spent, return on fundraising increased to $7.35 in 2020, driven mostly by fundraising...
How American Discourse Got To Be So Stupid
We all know what we're doing in a classroom; we're putting on a class and we all share the same script as to what...
Stephen Colbert Will Chair New 15-Member Board Of Stars Advising Second City Theatre
Colbert, who performed at the Old Town theater in the 1990s, will chair the board. He said in a statement Monday that his recruits...
Dr. Seuss Decides To IPO
Dr. Seuss Enterprises is one of the most prized collections of intellectual property in the world, and nearly every major Hollywood heavyweight is likely...
What This Year’s Tony Nominations Tell Us About Broadway
So we’re back to normal, right? Not exactly. Broadway remains an economic conundrum and a contested cultural question. - Los Angeles Times
How You Know When You’ve Entered A “Real” Bookstore
While authors can be colorful, book dealers are often notably cranky and eccentric. One conducting business in fashionable Cecil Court put up a sign...
A New And Thriving Genre Of AI-Generated Poetry
Dozens of websites, with names like Poetry Ninja or Bored Human, can now generate poems with a click of a key. One tool is...
Auction Of Justice Ginsburg Memorabilia Raises Big Bucks For Opera
All told, an online auction of 150 of items owned by the late justice raised $803,650 for Washington National Opera, one of the late...
Canada Gets Its First National Jazz Orchestra
The aim is for the orchestra to tour not only across Canada, but internationally, to show the world what Canadian jazz musicians, composers and...
How The Ukraine War Has Re-Energized How Britain Thinks Of Itself
Truss’s central idea is that the West has grown complacent since the end of the Cold War, because of a spiritual crisis in which...
Digesting The Tonys: The Surprises And The Overlooked
The nominators spread out their admiration quite widely: Of the 34 shows eligible for nominations, 29 got at least one nod, including the critically...
The Song That’s Uniting India And Pakistan
The song is stealthily subversive: a traditional raga—the classical Indian framework for musical improvisation—has been laid over an infectious beat that sounds South Asian,...
How To Explain The Allure Of Conspiracy Theories? (The New Books)
The conspiracy theorist’s dogmatism often distracts from the objects of his skepticism, and it is the latter that I believe are more revealing. The...
Why (And How) TikTok Is Dangerous
TikTok’s real power isn’t over our data. It’s over what users watch and create. It’s over the opaque algorithm that governs what gets seen...
How Russia’s War On Ukraine Is Changing The World’s Ballet Stages
24th of February, this is, was the line, Because it's all changed. All changed. The reputation of Russia and Russian people, even if you...
Plato Karayanis, 91 – Led Dallas Opera For 23 Years
An outgoing man whose sonorous baritone betrayed his beginnings as a singer, Karayanis presided over the founding of the opera company’s orchestra and creation...
