Commentary

Andy Warhol's observation that "the best museum is a department store" proves increasingly prophetic as cultural institutions reshape themselves for broader market appeal. Contemporary museums have evolved beyond repositories of art into purveyors of cultural capital—selling not objects, but the social distinctions that come with

“Frida’s favorite subject was herself,” Meir Ronnen wrote in a review of Fridas Vater. Roughly one third (fifty-five) of Frida Kahlo’s paintings are self-portraits. The sheer number and preponderance of self-portraiture in her body of work is unmatched except perhaps by Munch, Rembrandt, and van Gogh. Comparing her

Nick Bryant, a correspondent covering Australian elections for the BBC, wrote the following in one of his blog posts, “My name is Nick and I fear I am in danger of becoming an Australian political junkie. I find myself boring friends with the swings needed to win obscure marginals, which,

The drive to acquire nuclear weapons is thought to stem largely from local threat perceptions. The point becomes all the more clear when we take stock of the countries where the nuclear weapons activity is limited to. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) nuclear weapons program initially

The following article has been written by Chaste, who has contributed to this blog before. I will assume for the purposes of this piece that argument is the dominant form of writing in academia. This is also true of public discourse, but this piece will limit itself to academic writing,