Steve The story of Tina Brown and the end of the old Newsweek is told in the new Politico Magazine. An enlightening read. Many thanks to Susan Glasser, EIC, and Janet Michaud, DD. We worked a bit extra on this but came up with the right note. Not unsympathetic to Tina encircled by the increasingly inscrutable … Read more
This week’s NY Observer gives us the 80 most powerful New Yorkers. The number one on the list? Chirlane McCrea, our new first lady, who Mayor de Blasio describes as his “moral compass”. The rest here are Rev. Al Sharpton (a former classmate from Tilden High in Brooklyn, way back when. Wonder what he’s doing … Read more
The idea of the “selfie” in literature was discussed in this recent piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education by Theodore Ziolkowski. My solution: hook on the Freudian connection. Difficult to ignore (or explain) the effect of technology on human psychology. Just in time for Google Glass. Look out. A Humanistic Field for Our Time: Egology … Read more
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