High Culture Is Counterculture, Who Beauvoir Loved, and More

When high culture was in high regard, joining the counterculture meant rejecting its values. But now... Top 5 Reads from Arts & Letters Daily [View this email in your browser]( [High Culture Is Counterculture]( When high culture was in high regard, joining the counterculture meant rejecting its values. Now high culture is the counterculture. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Who Beauvoir Loved]( The romance between Sartre and Beauvoir was haunted by the friend whom she wrote about again and again. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Dishonesty In Research on Honesty]( “This is not what real data look like, and we can’t think of a plausible benign explanation for it.” Was a landmark study about dishonesty faked? --------------------------------------------------------------- [The Spine Collector]( For years a clever thief has plagued the publishing world. No one knows who it is, but everyone has a theory. --------------------------------------------------------------- [How Criticism Became So Positive]( How did “Let people enjoy things” evolve from an annoying internet meme to an all-out campaign against negative criticism? B.D. McClay explains. Copyright © 2021 Arts and Letters Daily, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you signed up at Our mailing address is: Arts and Letters Daily 1255 Twenty-Third St, N.W.washington, DC 20037 [Add us to your address book]( [unsubscribe from this list]( [update subscription preferences](