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Sue Halpern
As human behavior is tracked and merchandized on a massive scale, the “Internet of Things” creates the perfect conditions to bolster and expand the surveillance state.
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David Shulman
Are we going to go on fighting these futile wars every couple of years, killing large numbers of innocents in the process, with mounting casualties among Israeli soldiers and civilians as well?
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Jed S. Rakoff
Of the 2.2 million Americans in prison, an estimated 20,000 persons, or more, are in prison for crimes to which they pleaded guilty but did not in fact commit.
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Osvaldo Ferrari: Many people still ask whether Borges believes in God, because at times they feel he does and at times that he doesn’t.
Jorge Luis Borges: If God means something in us that strives for good, yes. If he’s thought of as an individual being, then no, I don’t believe.
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Geoffrey O’Brien
In Goodbye to Language Jean-Luc Godard wants to take 3-D for a test run, pushing at the edges of what it can do. What the film restores is the primordial shock before movies, before even cave paintings.
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James Romm
The strategies by which the Greeks maintained power over their subjects in ancient Egypt are vividly illustrated in a new exhibition at NYU’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World.
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Geoffrey Wheatcroft: Too much English musical life is concentrated in London, but over the next few weeks metropolitan music lovers will do well to head west from Paddington station.
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Antony Shugaar: Fifty years after the filming of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s The Gospel According to St. Matthew, the city of Matera is hosting an ambitious multimedia exhibition about him.
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