The cultural elite in Christian Lander’s Stuff White People Like blog have specific tastes. Their favorite activities (watching political documentaries, “raising awareness,” foreign travel), which they complacently embrace as broadening, are in fact lazy and tend to be intellectually and politically stultifying: White People “like feeling smart without doing work–two hours in a theater is easier than ten hours with a book.”
Tag: 10.08
When Artists Came To America
Taken as a whole, twentieth-century American immigrants in the performing arts were not able to sustain a full growth curve upon relocating. Some lost their way entirely. Of those who did not, almost all enjoyed a more consummated European calling. The exceptions–the major old-world careers that accelerated in the New World–can be counted on the fingers of one hand…