Jake Romm
By Jake Romm
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Culture Ever Wonder Who Your Favorite Artist Was Reading? Now You Can Find Out
Have you ever wanted to know what your favorite author was listening to? What your favorite musician was reading? What your favorite chef considered to be a luxury item? Well, now you find out thanks to an archival project by the BBC. The network has recently digitized the entire catalogue of the Desert Island Discs…
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Culture This Exciting Exhibition Will Have You Hearing Sculptures
Susan Sontag, in her essay “The Aesthetics of Silence,” wrote that “As long as a human eye is looking there is always something to see. To look at something that’s “empty” is still to be looking, still to be seeing something — if only the ghosts of one’s own expectations.” We might extend Sontag’s assertion…
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Culture The Time Einstein Spent His Birthday Saving Jewish Education
According to an article in Mental Floss, the first time Albert Einstein came to America, he found himself caught up in a whirlwind of media frenzy – of prying reporters, flashing cameras, and an alternatively eager and dismissive public (one woman called Einstein’s achievements “highbrow bunk” – among the most quintessentially American phrases ever uttered). The year…
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Culture A Tale Of Madness, Murder, And Mathematics
There’s a well-known formula for creating a juicy story known as “The Three M’s” – murder, madness, and mathematics. Okay, so maybe not, but there is at least one story around that satisfies both the “juicy” and “three M’s” categories: the story of Andre Bloch (which first came to my attention via the blog of Dr….
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Culture Will Lars Von Trier Be Allowed To Show His New Trump Inspired Film At Cannes?
With titles like “The Idiots,” and “Antichrist,” it’s no surprise that Danish director Lars von Trier is always getting himself into trouble. Most famously, back in 2011 during an interview at Cannes, the director said “I thought I was a Jew for a long time and was very happy being a Jew … Then it…
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Culture Why William F. Buckley’s ‘Firing Line’ Provides The Antidote To Today’s Political Debate
We are currently dealing with two pernicious and complementary problems in our country: politicians ranging from imbecilic to evil (often both) and a degraded, debased, public discourse. Both problems feed on one another, and it is difficult to say which came first (i.e. Trump speaks and thinks like an imbecile, thus every time we want…
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Culture The Incredible Holocaust Photographs Of Henryk Ross Show Daily Life In The Lodz Ghetto
From 1940 to 1944, photographer Henryk Ross documented life inside the Lodz Ghetto in Poland. Officially, Ross worked for the ghetto’s Jewish Administration’s Statistics department, photographing the Jewish ghetto’s inhabitants for identification cards and for propaganda images to be used by the Nazis. When Ross was not working in his bureaucratic capacity however, he risked…
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Culture Fanny Mendelssohn’s Lost Sonata Finally Gets Its Premiere
Imagine learning all of Bach’s 48 preludes and fugues by heart and being told, “that’s cute.” You’d smash your instrument, and the interlocutor in rage. Well, that’s precisely what happened to Fanny Mendelssohn (it happened to countless women then, and continues to happen now). Fanny, though a musical prodigy and a prolific composer, was overshadowed…
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