While there is no page one news in the half hour, we do visit the softer side of the oldtime daily paper; along with Aunt Jenny, we encounter the crossword editor, a local doctor doubling as medical columnist, and even the classified ads are good for a groan-producing joke. McGee, al...
The past century’s most vocal critics of astrology have argued that it is a problem. In “The Stars Down to Earth,” Theodor Adorno’s close-reading of theLos Angeles Timesastrology column in 1952, he argued that belief was never the issue: astrology was rather a “secondary superstition,...