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Making sense of a mission statement

(10/05/16 4:45am)

Around two weeks ago, it was announced that Josh Kun, Trinity ’93, had been chosen as a 2016 MacArthur Fellow. Kun is a cultural historian whose work, to quote his MacArthur profile, explores “the ways in which the arts and popular culture are conduits for cross-cultural exchange.” Last week, when I spoke with Kun—who is a professor of communication in the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism—I asked him how his view of Duke had changed in the years since graduation.

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2016/10/making-sense-of-a-mission-statement

'The West Wing' rewritten

(09/21/16 2:03pm)

One night during the first week of classes, I was walking back to my dorm in Edens, trying not to think about the litany of readings and problem sets I’d be assigned in the coming weeks. As I passed a common room with walls of glass, I glanced in and saw Dule Hill’s likeness on a television. Those in the room were watching “The West Wing.” I paused for a moment and smiled before quickly moving along so as to avoid looking like a character from “Rear Window.” I had smiled not because I liked “The West Wing”—I hadn’t even seen it—but because growing up, I loved Aaron Sorkin, the show’s creator. I maintain that “The Social Network”—for which Sorkin won a screenplay Oscar—is about as close as you can get to technical perfection, and I stuck it out through all three seasons of “The Newsroom.”

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2016/09/the-west-wing-rewritten

The expatriate’s bromance

(09/07/16 2:06pm)

I wonder what Ernest Hemingway would think of the modern-day bromance. Might he be skeptical of the intimacy that characterizes so many of the 21st-century’s fictional male friendships? What would he say after sitting through a screening of “I Love You, Man?” If his body of work—or more accurately, the comparatively limited parts of it which I’ve encountered—is any indication, I imagine he might be a bit perplexed by the sight of Paul Rudd and Jason Segel lobbing affectionate nicknames at one another. I say this because it seems to me that Hemingway’s characters are often solitary people, more commonly characterized by their overwhelming fears and fixations than the quality of their friendships.

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2016/09/the-expatriates-bromance

​Art and institutions

(05/22/16 12:20pm)

There’s a scene in the first quarter of “Broadcast News,” in which the heroine, Jane—a young producer at a major news network—gives a speech to a room full of reporters, producers and anchors at a television broadcasting convention. Her topic is the apparent danger their collective profession faces: the tendency for networks to report on commercially viable, dumbed-down, stories rather than actual news. She asks her colleagues, “We’re all secretly terrified by what’s happening, aren’t we?”

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2016/05/art-and-institutions