Nader ElhefnawyThe Artist as AristocratThose of conventional, “middle class” (aka, bourgeois) mind may look at the steady 8-to-6 routine of the employee at a materially…10h ago10h ago
Nader ElhefnawyThe Technocrat and The Cult of the Good SchoolFor some decades it has been common for social critics to speak of professionals, “experts,” technocrats, “the overclass” (Michael Lind’s…10h ago10h ago
Nader ElhefnawyThree Books to Read to Understand “The Writing Life”I have often criticized the lousy job writers do of portraying what writers do, and what they go through in the course of their careers. Of…10h ago10h ago
Nader ElhefnawyWhat the “News” Media Gave Us Then, What the News Media Give Us NowRemarking his time working in Pittsburgh not long after the bloodbath that was the crushing of the Homestead steel strike (1892), where Big…10h ago10h ago
Nader Elhefnawy“Show, Don’t Tell” and the Triumph of the Art of Beauty Over the Art of PowerIn Mammonart Upton Sinclair draws a distinction between the “Art of Beauty” and the “Art of Power.” The former is distinguished by its…11h ago11h ago
Nader ElhefnawyForm, Content — and PoliticsAs Upton Sinclair observes in Mammonart, “all art is propaganda.” However, he also observes that there is an “Art of Beauty” and an “Art…11h ago11h ago
Nader ElhefnawyThe Dead Internet Theory: A Few ThoughtsYou may have heard of the “dead Internet theory” holding that most of the activity we see online is not human-originated, and indeed being…11h ago11h ago
Nader ElhefnawyOn the Conservatism of JournalistsIn considering the politics of artists and how they are not necessarily what people expect them to be I have found myself also thinking of…11h ago11h ago
Nader ElhefnawyThe Teaching Life and its Hidden Psychological CostsOne of the more interesting aspects of Upton Sinclair’s study of the American school system The Goslings is his treatment of the situation…11h ago11h ago