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Are movies art? A symposium featuring: Jonah Goldberg * Chris Weinkopf * Brandon Bosworth * Josh Larsen * Cristopher Rapp * Jonathan Last * Terry Teachout.
In Art, Popular is OK
By Jonah Goldberg
There are several problems with the "art vs. mere entertainment" debate. The first is the language itself. We don't have a good middle-ground word that describes something that is both artful and fun for many people.
This linguistic hitch is exacerbated by a second problem. A certain elite holds a white-knuckled grip on the term "art" and is reluctant to allow the grubby masses to touch it. This elite overlooks the fact that much high art used to be popular entertainment.
Take cathedrals, the only form of classical art I know much about. The stained glass and stone carvings of medieval cathedrals ...
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- Magazine article from: Columbia Journalism Review Lipton, Joshua May 1, 2002 700+ words
...official conservative position. You'd be wrong. With a heavy dose of pop culture and attitude--lots of attitude--Jonah Goldberg and his writers have marketed NRO to a fresh generation. Whether its brash, provocative commentary promotes political...
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- Magazine article from: Spectator Delingpole, James February 28, 2009 700+ words
Jonah Goldberg's Liberal Fascism is a conservative's wet dream. No, it's better than that. The moment you read it--presuming you...
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- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Schorow, Stephanie July 18, 2000 700+ words
...htm). Oliver North used it in a column for www.msnbc.com/news/412870.asp. Ann Landers has used it and so did Jonah Goldberg in the National Review Online. Its use in a column written by a U.S. representative has become a political football...
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- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) Lyke, M.L. June 13, 2001 700+ words
...and that your most persuasive public arguments involve taking a bad word and putting a "Mc" in front of it," writes Jonah Goldberg in National Review. Everybody's dishing the McMuck. PlanetFeedback.com, a Web site cataloging consumer opinion...
- Liberate the public schools.
- Newspaper article from: Orange County Register (Santa Ana, CA) June 20, 2007 700+ words
...where money was no object, featuring a state-of-the-art TV system wired into every classroom. Three years later...But maybe that is changing. A mainstream conservative, Jonah Goldberg of National Review, saw the same Post series as I did and...
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- Press release article from: PR Newswire November 10, 2005 700+ words
...Stein * Wednesday: Max Boot, Erin Aubry Kaplan * Thursday: Jonah Goldberg, Patt Morrison * Friday: Rosa Brooks * Saturday: Meghan...political perspectives will still appear, but a greater variety of art will make the page more vibrant and interesting. As a result...
- Evergreen Elsinore.(Andrew Sullivan's 'The Conservative Soul')
- Magazine article from: National Review Derbyshire, John December 4, 2006 700+ words
...The Conservative Soul (reviewed in the last issue of NR by Jonah Goldberg), I was interested to see that Andrew, when in high school...similarly worked over by the scholars, revealing wonders of art and understanding I shall never know. This is fine old wine...
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- Newspaper article from: Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD) January 7, 2007 700+ words
...parallels -- "We're all Wilsonians now," the columnist Jonah Goldberg recently mused. One thing is sure. His legacy still matters...kid gloves. In his free time, Wilson visited the Walters Art Gallery and attended the theater. For two hours every day...
Source: HighBeam Research, Are movies art? A symposium featuring: Jonah Goldberg * Chris...