Random Thoughts
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Is Oppenheimer a Modern Tragedy?
Is modern tragedy possible? Arthur Miller seemed to think so. He wrote a now-legendary piece for The New York Times in 1949 called “Tragedy and the Common Man,” published seventeen days after the debut of Death of a Salesman on Broadway, in which he argued passionately: “As a general rule…I think the tragic feeling is…
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The Future of Television May Be in its Past
In 1971, Gil Scott-Herron famously claimed “The revolution will not be televised. The revolution will be live.” Turns out, it was both. The insurrection of January 6, 2021 was televised at the same time it was being recorded on video on hundreds of cell phones that eventually yielded a vast panoply of competing narratives from…
Staying Three 