Denis Dutton, author of the new book The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution and founder and editor of Arts & Letters Daily, argues that taste in art is more about natural selection than social construction. Plus, a follow up discussion on why Proposition 8 passed.
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Denis DuttonNew York Jobless Numbers
M. Patricia Smith, Commissioner of Labor, discusses the release of the latest unemployment numbers for New York state.
New York's New Senator
Later on today, Governor Paterson is expected to appoint Congresswoman Kirsten Gillibrand to fill Hillary Clinton's senate seat. Wayne Barrett, a senior editor at the Village Voice, and Irene Jay Liu, a political writer at the Times Union and a blogger for
Art and Evolution
Denis Dutton, founder and editor of the website Arts & Letters Daily, professor of the philosophy of art at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and the author of The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution (Bloomsbury Press, 2008), looks at art and aesthetics from ...
America's Future
Niall Ferguson, professor of History at Harvard University and the author of The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World (Penguin Press HC, 2008), and Peniel Joseph, associate professor of African-American Studies and History at Brandeis University, contributor to The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, and ...
Following Up: Prop 8, Thomas Paine, and the Purple Tunnel of Doom
Follow-Up Friday takes a look back at three stories from the week's news: the black vote and California's Proposition 8 with Patrick Egan, an assistant professor of politics and public policy at New York University; Obama and Thomas Paine with Karen Thorsen, producer of the film The Paine ...
Previewing the New Senator
Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer and Assemblywoman Deborah Glick preview the selection of Kirsten Gillibrand as Governor Paterson's pick to replace Hillary Clinton as senator.
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