TMZ Is the Justice of the Masses
Christopher Beha’s Arts & Entertainments, and how we create and consume stories of other people’s lives in order to feel better about our own.
Posts in category “Books”
The Ethics of Disability Metaphors
From the teenage romance between an amputee and an oxygen-tank user in …
Carrie White Will Never Die: “Carrie: The Musical” at the Studio Theatre
The horrific power of perverted Christianity makes this musical work.
Nixon’s The One
Pat Buchanan documents the ’68 campaign with detail and nuance.
Reading & the “Attention War”
Focus is a difficult thing to muster these days. As David Brooks …
The Value of Young-Adult Fiction
As the movie adaptation of John Green’s young-adult fiction novel The Fault …
Why Fairytales Are Dangerous
Childhood stories are Richard Dawkins’s worst nightmare.
Before #YesAllWomen, There Was The Gift of Fear
Gavin de Becker offered empathy and understanding to women before hashtag activism ever existed.
A Journal of Poetry and Place
New Trad aims to revive an ancient poetic tradition for the modern ear.
Every Day Is Like Sunday: Rediscovering Wilfrid Sheed’s “The Hack”
A pre-Vatican II satire totally at home in our current performance culture.
Why I’m Leaving Goodreads
Social network-fueled reading becomes performance and competition, not discovery.
Shakespeare Theatre Company’s “Henry IV”: The Story of Prince Hal
A prince sits disconsolately in a royal palace, alone—save for a stoic …
What Is Conservatism?
Though often mistaken for a partisan ideology, true conservatism represents a much …
McArdle’s Guide to Failing Well
Failure terrifies Americans into fragility, quite unnecessarily.
What Austen Taught Me
The great novelist’s books teach lessons in virtue alongside the romance.
Bard College Declares War on Admissions Rigmarole
I once tutored a student who could write an A+ essay, and …
The Flash Boys vs. the Market Machines
Imagine if, every time you tried to place an order on the …
The Ethics of Disability Metaphors
From the teenage romance between an amputee and an oxygen-tank user in …
Carrie White Will Never Die: “Carrie: The Musical” at the Studio Theatre
The horrific power of perverted Christianity makes this musical work.
Nixon’s The One
Pat Buchanan documents the ’68 campaign with detail and nuance.
Reading & the “Attention War”
Focus is a difficult thing to muster these days. As David Brooks …
The Value of Young-Adult Fiction
As the movie adaptation of John Green’s young-adult fiction novel The Fault …
Why Fairytales Are Dangerous
Childhood stories are Richard Dawkins’s worst nightmare.
Before #YesAllWomen, There Was The Gift of Fear
Gavin de Becker offered empathy and understanding to women before hashtag activism ever existed.
A Journal of Poetry and Place
New Trad aims to revive an ancient poetic tradition for the modern ear.
Every Day Is Like Sunday: Rediscovering Wilfrid Sheed’s “The Hack”
A pre-Vatican II satire totally at home in our current performance culture.
Why I’m Leaving Goodreads
Social network-fueled reading becomes performance and competition, not discovery.
Shakespeare Theatre Company’s “Henry IV”: The Story of Prince Hal
A prince sits disconsolately in a royal palace, alone—save for a stoic …
What Is Conservatism?
Though often mistaken for a partisan ideology, true conservatism represents a much …
McArdle’s Guide to Failing Well
Failure terrifies Americans into fragility, quite unnecessarily.
What Austen Taught Me
The great novelist’s books teach lessons in virtue alongside the romance.
Bard College Declares War on Admissions Rigmarole
I once tutored a student who could write an A+ essay, and …
The Flash Boys vs. the Market Machines
Imagine if, every time you tried to place an order on the …