culture

A few months ago I saw Jon Stewart on Oprah. I watch Stewart’s Daily Show almost daily, and I enjoy his social commentaries (if that’s what you can call them). While a guest on Oprah, Stewart described something he had…

I love museums. Nowhere does the tension between the present and the past play itself out more directly. Museums are the keepers of the narratives of the human story, and often the keepers of secrets. They are quiet places,…

Is humanity making progress? Or are we stuck, regressing, imploding? Nobody knows. But it’s often the obsession of writers to speculate on our collective direction. This is a good thing. Maybe the only really useful thing writers do. From In…