New Future For The Old Europe: A Sexual Revolution Of Mass Culture
“I call it a sexual revolution: a Catalan boy meets a Flemish girl, they fall in love, get married — and they become European, just like their children.”
Why We Love Picasso
Pablo Picasso “Nudes in a Forest,” Paris, spring 1908 watercolor, gouache and graphite on wove paper 47.6 x 59.1 cm (18 3/4 x 23 1/4 in.), Philadelphia Museum of Art / Courtesy of National Gallery of Art Pablo Picasso was the most inventive artist the West has ever known, and his drawings let us…
Racy XXX Sex Journals Released To Public Of Private Individuals Who Watch Porn
SEX LIVES OF OUR NEIGHBORS Arianne Cohen has learned a few things from poring over the sex diaries of 1,500 people. For starters: relationships are a lot like careers. Sure, some of us work 9 to 5—but others stay home in pajamas all day, eating crackers in bed. It can get messy. Second:…
Citizen Class Warfare 2012 : Will Americans Stave Off Disaster ?
The man who broke the Bank of England George Soros. He’s the investor’s investor—the man who still holds the record for making more money in a single day’s trading than anyone. He pocketed $1 billion betting against the British pound on “Black Wednesday” in 1992, when sterling lost 20 percent of its value…
Brinkmanship In A World On The Edge
– A convoy of hearses left the cemetery in Thessaloniki, Greece and made its way to the government’s nearby regional headquarters. To the relief of the civil servants watching from the windows, the vehicles were empty – except for the drivers, who arrived en masse to protest a recent tax hike. Hearse costs…
What art writing can learn from the lessons of literature
Notes to Self What art writing can learn from the lessons of literature Italo Calvino at his home in Paris (1984) I have always imagined that ‘creative’ writers confront the blank page accompanied by a coterie of kindred spirits – authors, fictional characters, fantastical creatures or historical figures – with whom they identify or against…
Racism Among Republicans For President: Where is Post-Racial Leadership ?
Nigger,” says his sidekick, Gareth (Dwight in the States), recalling with glee the name of the dog. Brent flinches, eager to mitigate the slur. “Yeah!… it was the ’40s,” he says, “before racism was bad.” The problem with the illusion of a postracial society is that at almost any moment the…
Court-Martial Recommended for WikiLeaks Suspect Bradley Manning
New Evidence of Assange-Manning Link Bradley Manning should be referred to a general court-martial, Lt. Col. Paul Almanza, the investigating officer assigned to Manning’s pre-trial hearing, recommended today. Almanza has been deliberating on the evidence presented in the hearing since it ended just before the Christmas holiday. Today he announced that the charges were in…
Iran leader says CIA, Mossad behind scientist’s death
An undated photo released by Iran’s semi-official Fars News Agency claims to show Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, who was killed by a car bomb in Tehran on Wednesday, Fars News Agency / AP Pho Circumstantial evidence suggests the Mossad is responsible for a string of slayings of Iran’s nuclear experts, most recently Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan. At…