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1030 Fiveeasypieces

Anger, Obama and Frank Zappa

Is Frank Zappa a prophet? Is Barack Obama a disappointment? Is anger a useful tool? I have my doubts.
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

Editorials 3 minute read
1018 kidman

Beautiful women and natural law

Will no man stand up to a beautiful woman? Do gorgeous women never suffer for their beauty? I’m happy to report from personal experience that the natural laws of compensation are alive and kicking.
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

Editorials 4 minute read
1008 mao

China's "culture of humiliation'

The key to China’s hypersensitivity, argues the Asia scholar Orville Schell, lies in “the legacy of the country's ‘humiliation’ at the hands of foreigners.” But why are some peoples so much more obsessed with their humiliation than others who’ve suffered just as grievously?
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

Editorials 5 minute read
Jack Palance as Wilson: 'Prove it.'

'Shane' in the computer age

The age of instant portable knowledge is clearly upon us. The implications for human conflict resolution are profound, especially in the arts. For example, how would the Western gunfighter Shane have dealt with adversity if he’d been armed with an iPhone?
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

Editorials 5 minute read

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938 Halpern Alan2

Orchestras and their 'comfort level'

Today’s orchestras seek a comfort level between conductor and musicians. They could learn a lesson from Philadelphia Magazine’s late editor Alan Halpern, who ran a dysfunctional office that produced inspired writing.
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

Editorials 3 minute read
894 Clinton Hilary

Hillary's final pitch to Pennsylvania

When Hillary Clinton’s father quit his blue-collar roots in Scranton for the suburbs of Chicago, he left his heart in Pennsylvania— a risky decision, medically speaking. And you wondered why she's so obsessed with health care?
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

Editorials 4 minute read
865 proust

Arts funding: Where I stand

The critical test in public funding for the arts must be: Where is the money going? And if it’s going to me, I’m all for it.
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

Editorials 4 minute read
829 OBIT BUCKLEY

Bill Buckley reconsidered

The conservative icon Bill Buckley’s oeuvre was enormous, and also shallow. At each opportunity for personal growth in his life, Buckley instinctively opted for style over substance, for celebrity over scholarship, for brilliance over wisdom, and for rhetoric over philosophy.
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

Editorials 7 minute read
812 Gluttony

Is cooking an art form?

The food and wine writer Lynn Hoffman takes me to task for failing to grant his chosen field the same level of respect that Broad Street Review accords to the performing and visual arts. Who is this goofball gourmet to question my judgment?
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

Editorials 4 minute read