Is there a site like Arts & Letters Daily except not so stupid?

Amazon’s world. The book industry’s woes are largely self-inflicted. “This is a business run by English majors, not business majors”... more»

Wow, didn't know ALDaily was still around. I sort of like that it looks exactly the same. How long has it been a part of Chronicle of Higher Education?

I think they're getting playful with their own rep: e.g. this

Most people in academe want to get out, says Terry Eagleton, who is himself getting out. And it’s just as well. So often the intellectual is the opposite of the academic... more»

signals in every way that you're going to be treated to your 1000th "professors are lost inside their own ivory asses, universities are dying and good riddance" article and when you follow the link it's in fact a discussion of Eagleton's book "Why Marx was Right." Gotcha, ALDaily faithful!

Either that or the editors have completely lost all their facilities of reading comprehension

Why did conservation – a gentle, optimistic undertaking – give way to the more divisive environmentalism? Two words: Rachel Carson...

anybody know anything about this site?

https://www.nsfwcorp.com/

it is sfw, btw

It was ... Not very good last I looked

is there a way to see any of it w/o paying?

i only ever saw one thing on that site, that crazy mark ames hit piece on malcolm harris

its run by paul carr whos got to be one of the top ten biggest peeholes in tech journalism so

huh ok, never heard of that guy

lol'd at this one:

Lionized in his own time, Beethoven was nonetheless in a perpetual rage. Thus his fondness for exclamation points...

this site still exists?

dow jones/wsj has a new culture war site up and running?

http://heatst.com/

goddamn look at this crap

Oh what a fucking treat http://heatst.com/uk/alt-right-anti-semitism-debate-vox-day-vs-louise-mensch/

great timing: politico just put this out today

http://www.politico.com/media/story/2016/05/heat-street-charts-a-course-through-the-culture-wars-004560

oh god it's louise mesch's baby...

this sounds like hell on earth:

Both Mensch and Kotch said their goal with Heat Street is to push back against what they see as the biggest transgression of the mainstream media — telling readers what to think.

“There is a lot of resistance to being lectured— especially among millennial news sources, which have a lecture-like quality,” Kotch said. “We are the antithesis of that.”

“It’s all very, ‘respect my authoritah, respect my authoritah,’” Mensch joked, referencing a punchline from the Comedy Central show South Park. (She is obviously a South Park fan, offering up a few generous recitations of relevant segments.)