Tag Archives: Barbara Kay

teenage wasteland: alpha female

Posted on February 15, 2012 by Dave

The degree to which children harbor seriously violent fantasies is well known for some time. From Golding’s Lord of the Flies, to Freud, to Heinrich Hoffman to everyday experience among children, their inability in many cases to sublimate the kill … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged alizia gur, Barbara Kay, catherine cogswell, Charles Baudelaire, emily white, Erica Jong, Lori Prince, margaret bourke-white, martine beswick, meryl streep the iron lady, miriam kaufman, phyllis chester, rachel simmons, ray corrado, reena virk, reena virk murder, rosalind wiseman, sibylle artz, Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, William Golding | Leave a comment

Theory X and Theory Y: Pavlov’s Tiger

Posted on January 17, 2011 by Dave

” This is garbage” Amy Chua is well; relative success and succeeding within the system.Save the tiger? The upwardly mobile in which Carnegie Hall and Harvard are brand names, hunted down like shopping for Louis Vuitton and Hermes. My daughter … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous | Tagged Abraham Maslow, Amy Chua, Amy Chua Tiger Mother, Ann Hulbert, Barbara Kay, Boris Sidis, Douglas McGregor, Dr. Leo Wiener, Jed Rubenfeld, Lawrence Solomon, Margaret Wente, Matt Nuenke, Simon Legree | 2 Comments

SANTA SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER: Listening to the Still Small Voice

Posted on January 3, 2011 by Dave

The relation of Christmas, Santa Claus, Saint Nick and Fascism was ambiguous; as unsettling as Santa squeezing down the chimney and spreading soot on the wall to wall carpeting. Nazi Germany celebrated Christmas without Christ with the help of swastika … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous | Tagged Barbara Kay, Christopher Hitchens, Clement Clarke Moore, David Gordon Smith, Henry Kissinger, Janet Peto, Jennifer Peto, Jonathan Kay national Post, Judith Breuer, Nicholas Winton, Noam Chomsky, Richard Dawkins, Robert Capa, Roger Boyles, Sir Nicholas Winton, Steph McCullough, Thomas Nast, Tony Patterson | Leave a comment

AUTHENTICITY AND AESTHETICS

Posted on March 1, 2010 by Dave

Snobbery has its own aesthetics. If a work of art seems identical to the naked eye, why should an original Picasso end up in the living room, a reproduction on the stairway and a forgery in the recycle bin? In … Continue reading →