Word: simplemindedness
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Hip-hop causes violence. This is a very common argument that's been made pretty much from the beginning. There are a number of things that are wrong with this. One is that it posits an incredibly simpleminded causal relationship between music that has violent narrative in it and actual...
Which management guru came up with the Cheese principle? Answer: Spencer Johnson, who is neither an M.B.A. nor a corporate veteran. He's an M.D. who trained at the Mayo Clinic and Harvard Medical School. He has written 10 other best-selling business books. Johnson knows that some people find...
I don't think I've seen - at least since equally offensive concentration camp fable, Life Is Beautiful - a movie so reliant on human stupidity to achieve its effect, so totally dishonest in its insistence on that quality (which it presents as innocence) to achieve its narrative goals. Bruno and...
At the third house, Waddah was taken indoors, then down a flight of stairs and through a doorway and pushed roughly to the floor. He felt several kicks to his chest and thighs, followed by rapid- fire questions: What was his name? Where did he live? Where did he work...
Maybe in this dark time, we need an earnest liberal fairy tale to remind us of our better, more tolerant selves. But there is more to the intertwined stories of Murrow and McCarthy than this simpleminded, rhetorically driven movie begins to encompass.