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Cultural Transplants
JOSEPH R. SHAPIRO is founder and past president of Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art. (ILLUSTRATION: This canvas by Wassily Kandinsky is a mild example of the sort of “art” favored by the Joseph R. Shapiros of this world.)
During a recent confab at the Chicago Jewish Community…
Watching the News
by Dr. William L. Pierce
I HAVE FRIENDS who tell me they don’t like to watch television news broadcasts, because they find them depressing. I, on the other hand, look forward to watching the evening news every day. I usually find the news encouraging.
My friends are conservatives. I am not.
When…
Sublimely Subliminal
by Revilo P. Oliver
FOR SEVERAL months, some years ago, one saw in newspapers and magazines expressions of concern over the possible use of television to induce a kind of hypnosis and alter the minds of the unsuspecting viewers. Images and words displayed on the screen too briefly for them to be perceived…
When We Were Sane
by Revilo P. Oliver
THE PICTURE on the right is reproduced from the cover of Science News, 7 September 1991, where it appears without identification or explanation to call attention to an article about the effect of excessive use of cocaine on the foetus of pregnant women. It is obviously an advertisement…
Philo Farnsworth: Almost-Forgotten Genius
The inventor of television, Philo Farnsworth (pictured here with his beloved wife and collaborator Elma), is little known today, mainly because of his opposition to the machinations of Jewish mogul David Sarnoff.
by Melanie M. Carroll and Kevin Alfred Strom
AS WE MARK the end of analogue television…