Thoughts from Across the Cultural Divide: #8 (Umlauts)

Thoughts from Across the Cultural Divide: #8 (Umlauts)

* The country of Iceland is smaller (pop. 317,398) than Wichita, Kansas (pop. 382,368), but I can name dozens of Icelanders making avant-garde art and music and can’t name one from the entire state of Kansas (pop. 2,871,238). I fear the culturati in New York often...

Thoughts from Across the Cultural Divide: # 6 (Tenure)

I just heard another New York peer round up to the decade when asked how long he’d been in New York. His first response was an efficient, “Ten years,” and then went on to say he moved to New York City in the middle of the Kerry/Bush election. It was probably an...