In the news … April 2021 Commentary on the news, current affairs, journalism, and the news media landscape more generally for April 2021.
Spellbound (1945) Alfred Hitchcock’s Spellbound remains captivating, though contexts have changed for genres, subject, and artistic treatment.
Notes on Appiah’s Lévi-Strauss Kwame Anthony Appiah’s New York Review of Books essay on Claude Lévi-Strauss confirm my old antipathies to his work, but also reveal some new façets to me.
In the news … March 2021 Commentary on current affairs, the news media, and the the state of journalism generally for March 2021.
Morrison and Freud: What’s on his mind? What could a Freudian perspective reveal to us about the angry Scott Morrison thrashing about for an end to his sexual assault and harassment problem.
