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Sunday, March 15, 2009
The Washington Post sneers at the art stimulus
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Leave it to the Washington Post in its so far relentless quest to uphold the nightmarish status quo of the 2000's by launching a length...
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Thursday, February 19, 2009
Economics vs culture: 21st c. boxing match.
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We had a rousing good discussion in cultural policy class last night on the issue of globalization as it affects the arts. It's a tangl...
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Thursday, February 12, 2009
We need new arguments
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The elimination of the arts from the stimulus bill -- and the chorus of "who needs the arts" that followed even on liberal sites l...
Monday, February 9, 2009
Are these the Democrats we were voting for?
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Apparently these are not. At least in the U.S. Senate. Last Friday (Feb 6), the Senate vote 73-24 to ban arts, recreation, or any other ki...
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
More on the Rose: "Disaster Capitalism?"
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When the Rose Museum closing was announced, I suspected that we would see evidence that Brandeis, in this era of economic downturn, was uniq...
Monday, February 2, 2009
A crazy idea to save the banks and ourselves
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What if, instead of sending cash to the banks and hoping they use it in ways that will help the people of the USA, why not pass a "bail...
The Rose Museum controversy proves two things
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If you haven't been following this particular strand of the apocalypse, the Rose Museum at Brandeis University has been ordered closed b...
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