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There is a moment at the conclusion of “Let’s Get Lost,” Bruce Weber??s 1988 documentary, when legendary jazz trumpeter Chet Baker betrays a rare moment of honesty. When Baker learns in an interview that he’s secured a shipment of prescription painkillers from a doctor in Europe, the once-great artist looks with the pain of a mendicant in his eyes and says, “I didn’t know if I would make it through the week.”Screened...
...grateful that a Harvard diploma boosts your “social status”). Even if you aren’t fascinated by the three-component theory of social stratification, you might feel like a genius throughout the semester if you manage to interpret Weber??s work; and that just might be worth the effort...
...Weber??s website alleges that the number of Jews who died in the Holocaust is just a fraction of the widely accepted 6 million death toll. It also features the work of Holocaust deniers David Irving and Ernst Zundel. Interviews with Weber are posted on the National Vanguard website, and the Toronto Star reported in 1988 that he was a former news editor of the Vanguard’s periodical...
While it is unclear why anti-Semitic activists chose to target the Yard and Eliot, the National Vanguard and Weber??s institute have both turned their attention to Harvard in recent days. Both groups' sites feature links to an article co-authored by Harvard professor Stephen M. Walt claiming that "the Israel Lobby"—a loose coalition of journalists, politicians, think tanks, and Jewish leaders—steers U.S. policy in the Middle East...
Maybe it’s an ingrained cultural attitude à la Max Weber??s “Protestant Ethic,” or maybe social pressures are demanding we maintain an ever-escalating lifestyle. Betrand Russell once commented that “one of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.” Perhaps we’re all just going crazy...