“Every spring, restaurants, churches, and student organizations invite non-Jews to relive the Israelites’ exodus from bondage. How did such an exclusive feast come to have seats for so many different faiths? … Does it dilute the real essence of Passover to turn the seder into a general celebration of freedom and a call for universal justice? Is it really that commendable to dip one’s toe into millennia of someone else’s tradition?”
Tag: 04.14.14
Cubicles: How We Got Them And What They Mean
“The design was intended to increase the power of ordinary workers; in practice it came to do something quite different, or at least that’s how it felt to many people.”
The ‘Failed Intellectual’ Who Became Twitter’s Favorite Nihilist
Or, how a soon-to-be-former German professor (he gave up on getting tenure) acquired more than 67,000 followers for his “compendium of utopian negation”. (Sample: “The Tickle Me Werner Herzog doll I got for Christmas only laughs when I tell him the universe isn’t utterly indifferent to our pain.”)
Top Posts From AJBlogs 04.14.14
Now Hirshhorn Loses Interim Director
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts | Published 2014-04-14
What I Thought I Wrote about “Porgy and Bess”
AJBlog: Unanswered Question | Published 2014-04-13
Inner direction
AJBlog: About Last Night | Published 2014-04-14
Irony, Minimalism, Ehrenreich and God
AJBlog: CultureCrash | Published 2014-04-14
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John Luther Adams Wins Pulitzer For “Become Ocean”
The work, premiered on June 20, 2013, by the Seattle Symphony and published by Taiga Press/Theodore Front Musical Literature (BMI), was described in the citation as “a haunting orchestral work that suggests a relentless tidal surge, evoking thoughts of melting polar ice and rising sea levels.”