Arts & Letters Daily (27 Oct 2009): "
Ayn Rand was proud, grouchy, vindictive, insulting, dismissive, and rash - the Evel Knievel of leaping to conclusions... more
People find it easier to get pleasure from modern art than avant-garde music, and it's not just a matter of conservatism and a love of Mozart... more
Monsters stand for human vulnerability and crisis: zombies, vampires, and serial killers are imaginative foils for thinking about our own responses to menace... more
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