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Reading Laura Field's Furious Minds
This is an important and very good book on the state of American conservative thought, and how over the past ten years it came to fully adopt Donald…
Jan 12
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Concessions prices: there oughtta be a law?
A reader, Kevin, asks if I had seen this new report by Brian Shearer at Vanderbilt University on legal remedies for high prices charged by different…
Jan 6
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John Carey's "What Good are the Arts?"
Literary critic and academic John Carey died last week at the age of ninety-one. I always enjoyed reading his reviews. If you hadn’t already guessed how…
Dec 18, 2025
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What should we teach future arts administrators and where should we teach it?
(Indiana University Bloomington, Kelley School of Business (left) and O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs (right)).
Nov 25, 2025
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AI and artists and rights
There is a recent piece at Lawfare, by Simon Goldstein and Peter N.
Nov 20, 2025
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Bill Ivey
Bill Ivey died this past weekend; he was eighty-one years old.
Nov 12, 2025
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We don't need an Alt Cultural Policy
(Oliver, trying to grab some zzz’s).
Nov 4, 2025
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What are we missing in the study of cultural policy?
I’m continuing to draw suggestions for topics from readers.
Oct 27, 2025
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