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Pushkin’s ‘Comedy of Distress’ Today
Regular readers know that I am particularly taken with the phrase “comedy of distress,” which seems to have originated with Alexander Pushkin. Pushkin applied it to his play about Tsar Boris Godunov, but most recently I applied it to the...
Toxic Kool-Aid for a Thirsty Country
The cover of the Insight section of today’s San Francisco Chronicle trumpet’s the question: Who will create the jobs of the future? This was the common theme for the first five opinion pieces. I have no idea how the Chronicle decided to...
The Cult of the Professional
It was probably only a matter of time before Andrew Keen, author of The Cult of the Amateur, would get around to taking a long hard look at the future of creative artists in the world the Internet has made. He has now done so on the Web site of the London...
Transcending the Trivial
Sunday, August 17, 2008 Transcending the Trivial Were it not for cable television (particularly the HBO offering of Generation Kill but with honorable mentions to Showtime for another round of Weeds and AMC for Mad Men), it would be easy to write off...
The History Dunces
Tuesday, August 5, 2008 The History Dunces Reading the increased traffic on Andrew Keen’s Great Seduction blog has reminded me of how little awareness our electorate seems to have of history. This should be no surprise in light of how much of that...
Has Progressivism Lost Touch with the World of Work?
Monday, July 7, 2008 Has Progressivism Lost Touch with the World of Work? Andrew Keen’s Great Seduction post yesterday, “The tyranny of free content,” may actually have less to do with the content itself than with what we might call...
