Sep 15, 2017
Week in review
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On Alice Walton’s philanthropy, Harvard’s image predicament & “cultural appropriation.”
On Alice Walton’s philanthropy, Harvard’s image predicament & “cultural appropriation.”
On the media’s attack on decency and the decline of civilized discourse.
On the statue controversy, the attacks in Barcelona & Babylonian trigonometry.
On iconoclasm and the restriction of free speech.
On the Google memo controversy and political bias in the presentation of science.
On recent instances of the political censorship of works of art.
A review of American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750–1804 by Alan Taylor.
On “Whitney Biennial 2017” at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
On the recent rehang of works at the Brooklyn Museum.
On the creep of P.C. culture into medical scholarship.