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“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.” —John Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn” (1819) In recent decades, empirical studies…

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Independent Critical Intellect”: Why Dwight Macdonald Matters Now

23/09/2019
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Oliver Spivey

Some people may remember Dwight Macdonald as a disillusioned ex-Trotskyist, a wittily irreverent gadfly or an unapologetic defender of high culture. He played all these roles during a career writing…

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Politics vs. Aesthetics: Why Great Art Cannot Conform to Our Political Views

26/07/2019
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Alexander Zubatov

Percy Bysshe Shelley proclaimed poets “the unacknowledged legislators of the world.” Today, that distinction belongs to Twitter mobs. Dispensing mob justice in brief and brutal 280-character decrees, these sneering Solons…

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Aesthetics

Beauty Is Truth, Truth Beauty: Aesthetics and the Perception of Accuracy

Independent Critical Intellect”: Why Dwight Macdonald Matters Now

Politics vs. Aesthetics: Why Great Art Cannot Conform to Our Political Views

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