How to Watch the 2022 Winter Olympics Without Cable
Less than a year after the pandemic-postponed Tokyo Summer Olympics, the 2022 Winter Olympics are set to take place in Beijing, China, on February 4-20. They...
The 4 Best Mechanical Switches for Mechanical Keyboards
Want to customize your mechanical keyboard? You have a lot of options then, but new switches will make the greatest impact. Your switch choice almost entirely...
Why You Want a 120Hz TV, Even If You’re Not a Gamer
TVs with a 120Hz refresh rate have become sought after thanks to the latest consoles offering a 120 frames per second mode in select games. However,...
The Waste Land
A few years ago I attended an open house at the Stickney Water Reclamation Plant, southwest of Chicago. It was a lovely Saturday morning, and I...
Strangers in a Strange Land
Over the years, glimpses into the inner sanctums of the Hasidic world have come along via literary or scholarly works, a few television miniseries, and, once...
A Kinetic Endlessness
Silken flounces flying up, his golden, hers blue, up he kicks, out she twists, his right hand takes her left and the naked man slips through:...
A Language of Geometric Forms
Sophie Taeuber-Arp was given a small show at the Museum of Modern Art forty years ago, but the large exhibition there now is the first opportunity...
‘Invitations to Dig Deeper’
Nineteen thirty-six was a momentous year for George Orwell, then aged thirty-two. On January 31 he went north to Lancashire and Yorkshire to collect material for...
Soldiers of Solidarity
In the early 1930s a California teenager named Delmer Berg left home to work as a farmhand for room and board plus seven dollars a month....
Europe’s Great Emporium
In 1563 Pieter Bruegel the Elder painted two versions of the Tower of Babel, one in Antwerp and the other in Brussels, after he had married...
