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Twenty years into the Internet Age, the world of online speech is still anarchic. How much responsibility should websites take in the matter?
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David Lat would gladly split his time between the Harvard Law Review and US Weekly. Here’s how he made those dueling interests into a career.
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A conversation with the founder of Above the Law.
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What are the five jazz albums everyone should own? It’s an impossible question, Gary Giddins says (then mentions six or seven).
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Is jazz dead? Hardly, says critic Gary Giddins, who believes we’re seeing “some kind of renaissance.”
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Jazz is an African-American music, yet its major white figures initially received the top gigs, the big money—and the scorn of black musicians. Untangling the genre’s racial politics is part […]
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Can criticism be as ageless as art, or is it inseparable from its time and place? Gary Giddins takes a tough look at his own profession.
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Yes, jazz should be studied in the academies, says critic Gary Giddins. But if its raw emotion gets “turned into homework assignments,” its whole meaning gets lost.
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“Jazz” author Gary Giddins explains why critics should err on the side of gushing, not bashing.
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Once listeners learn to recognize stale pop music formulas, they often become enamored with the spontaneity of jazz.
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A conversation with the award-winning jazz critic and author of “Jazz.”
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“Jazz” author Gary Giddins looks back at his younger self: an avid reader of Dr. Johnson and would-be critic of English literature.
Gary Giddins learned early in his career that his job isn’t to spend whole columns trashing albums no one would have bought anyway. His job is to buttonhole readers and […]
It’s been an exciting Wednesday morning here at Big Think. Not only were we pleased to present our Nobel Wisdom series, having interviewed two recent laureates in the past several […]
Writing about intelligence is like running a ferry service between two different planets. On one, everyone assumes that g, general intelligence, is a real and important trait, in which heredity […]
A German banker has been hailed as “Die Robin Hood Bankerin” after she transferred money from rich accounts to help the poor.
Residents of an Australian community have been overrun by an invasion of thousands of camels – and many people are scared to leave their homes.
The death toll of the massacre of journalists and politicians in southern Philippines has hit 52 after investigators discovered another six bodies.
If you mix salt water with fresh water you create instant carbon-neutral energy – the process is called osmotic power and the world’s first osmotic power plant has just opened.
Stanford scholars are considering the legal implications of using robots – with issues extending beyond personal injury and property damage to criminal and civil rights.