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Alfred Hitchcock Wanted Frank Lloyd Wright to Design the North by Northwest House: An Architect Just Built It for $45 Million

about 15 hours ago

Villains who live in opulent, remote modernist houses may have been a...

When Albert Einstein & Charlie Chaplin Met and Became Fast Famous Friends (1930)

about 23 hours ago

Photo via Wikimedia Commons “You do not really understand something unless you...

The Declaration of Independence Performed by Morgan Freeman, Benicio del Toro, Winona Ryder & Other Actors

4 days ago

Some successful Hollywood producers spend their money on yachts, sports teams, and...

Meet the Syntopicon: The Ambitious Index That Tried to Organize All of Western Thought (1952)

5 days ago

Mortimer J. Adler rose to cultural prominence in the mid-twentieth-century United States...

Isaac Asimov Laments the “Cult of Ignorance” in the United States (1980)

6 days ago

Rochester Institute of Technology, via Wikimedia Commons In 1980, scientist and writer...

The Thai Beef Noodle Soup That Has Been Continuously Simmering for 52 Years

6 days ago

As Bangkok rises into the ranks of the world’s great culinary destination...

Hannah Arendt on “Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship:” Better to Suffer Than Collaborate

7 days ago

Image by Bernd Schwabe, via Wikimedia Commons When Eichmann in Jerusalem—Hannah Arendt’s...

When Bill Murray Unexpectedly Adapted a W. Somerset Maugham Novel: The Razor’s Edge (1984)

8 days ago

In summer of 1984, American popular culture was dominated by Ghostbusters, a...

How Japan Invented Daisugi, the Ancient Method of Growing Lumber Without Cutting Down Trees

8 days ago

Ask anyone, of most any age and in most any society, how...

Rare Film of Sculptor Auguste Rodin Working at His Studio in Paris (1915)

11 days ago

We’ve previously featured a series of remarkable little films of French artists...

When The Surrealists Expelled Salvador Dalí for “the Glorification of Hitlerian Fascism” (1934)

12 days ago

Image by Carl Van Vechten, via Library of Congress and Wikimedia Commons...