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.
Claude Lévi-Strauss
The lens of insanity
Demands for simple language and dumbed-down concepts must not become anti-intellectualism and ignorance of the Western canon.
The Vietnam War (2017): II
The second part of my commentary on the arresting, brilliant Burns-Novick documentary.