The table below contains links to some of the headlines that I have added to my research files during the week of February 20-26, 2017. I use these articles to update my lectures, as a source of inspiration for blog posts, and as background research for existing and forthcoming books. If you are an administrator…
It is difficult to overstate the full depth and breadth of the New York Post‘s loathing for the administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio (and presumably for the Mayor himself). In the Post‘s view, there is no social ill afflicting the city–vagrancy, panhandling, public urination, the rat population, disrespect for law enforcement, political correctness, the…
I had the pleasure of speaking this morning to students at the Simmons College School of Library and Information Services at the invitation of Assistant Professor Laura Saunders, who is teaching a summer course entitled “Intellectual Freedom and Censorship.” In her syllabus, Dr. Saunders describes the class as follows: This course provides students with in-depth…
The Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority has had a tough year. The commuter service was faced with enormous challenges last winter when the region was pummelled by eleven plus feet of snow and by most accounts, the MBTA blew it. By mid-February, the agency’s schedule was in shambles and general manager Beverly Scott was forced to…
There were two big stories in the art world yesterday. The first was that a painting entitled Les Femmes d’Alger (Version O), which was painted by Pablo Picasso in 1955, sold at auction at Christie’s in New York for a record-breaking $179 million. Naturally, this is a story that news outlets, particularly those based in…
A couple of weeks ago, I was interviewed by writer Lauren Le Vine for a piece that she was doing on the history of naked breasts on American television. The resulting article was published by Refinery29 a week ago on April 30, 2015. Le Vine does a good job of reviewing the complicated history of…
A trailer for a provocative Australian comedy about “race, Aboriginality, and discrimination” was banned from Facebook in mid-April because it contains very brief images of elderly Aboriginal women dancing topless in a traditional ceremony. You can view the trailer below. Rachel Clements, co-creator of the movie 8MMM, told the Sydney Morning Herald that she “was…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Frederick Lane FSLane3@gmail.com www.FrederickLane.com 802-318-4604 BURLINGTON, VT — In a 102-page opinion released earlier today, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the $550,000 fine assessed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) against CBS for the infamous Janet Jackson/Justin Timberlake “wardrobe malfunction” during the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show. In reaching its…
