Culture
Stephen Fry calls for return of Parthenon marbles to Athens
By Nadia Khomami
Thu 5 Jan 2023
The removal of the Parthenon sculptures from Athens was akin to removing the Eiffel Tower from Paris or Stonehenge...
Actor Frank Langella denounces “cancel culture” in response to firing from...
By Nick Barrickman
9 May 2022
Veteran Hollywood and stage actor Frank Langella responded to allegations of “sexual harassment” in a scathing letter published last week...
The degeneration of ecologic protest
Anti-oil protesters throw tomato soup on van Gogh’s Sunflowers
By Erik Schreiber, David Walsh
17 October 2022
On Friday, two anti-oil activists threw two cans of tomato...
Phil Hammond – Culture Wars and Wars for Values
Values-driven’ foreign policy is simultaneously a domestic culture war. On both fronts, Western values-talk is past its sell-by date.
Phil Hammond is Emeritus Professor for...
Inside The Military-Entertainment Complex
By David Sirota
Jun 9, 2022
The military quietly infiltrating a movie studio… the idea might seem like a fantastical plot from a film, but Top...
France: Former Director of Louvre Charged for Art Trafficking
On Wednesday, the former president and director of the Louvre Museum were prosecuted under the charge of art trafficking.
May 26, 2022
Jean-Luc Martinez, former president...
Book Review Mozart’s intriguing if incomplete visage
Bravura surfing of the wave of history omits profound truths, writes JOHN GREEN
Mozart in Motion: His Work and His World in Pieces
By Patrick Mackie
Granta...
How Russia Made 100 Million People Literate
What changes were made to improve the astonishingly low literacy rates in the USSR?
By Ethan Friend
Dec 13, 2019
It was vitally important that the Communists...
The reality of looted colonial art and restitution
"A high-priority cultural policy": The German Lost Art Foundation is hosting a conference on looted art and the restitution of colonial objects.
Dec 05, 2021
"As...
Henry Kissinger’s Last Crusade: Stopping Dangerous AI
By Belinda Luscombe
Nov 5, 2021
At the age of 98, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has a whole new area of interest: artificial...