The main goal of the critic is to see the object he is considering as what it actually is not. O. Wilde Why are biographies of celebrities written? And, what’s even more interesting, why are they read? Curiosity in the intimate details of the lives of politicians, dictators or generals is also somehow explainable. These characters become bronzed during their lifetime.

All people - Jews, Germans, and even some Zulus - have essentially the same morality, a professor of philosophy from Muhlenberg University (Pennsylvania) argues in his article. He proves very convincingly, using impeccable logic, using algebra to verify the harmony of human relations. Under the onslaught of evidence from Professor Schick Jr., the theories of subjectivists, cultural relativists and anthropologists are crumbling like houses of cards before our eyes.

According to scripture - 3 Ilya Lepikhov Date of publication: October 17, 2000 Totalitarian culture today seems to double in our imagination. On the one hand, it is presented as an unshakable monolith, a wall extending into the heavens, the stones of which are so tightly fitted to each other that it is impossible, let alone sticking matches or pins, between them. The wall... And above it, behind the clouds, work is in full swing: further, higher, forward.

As promised by Jennel Brown from Salon Magazine , representatives of the Secure Digital Music Initiative completely deny that the samples of audio file protection technologies presented for the demonstration hack were actually hacked. Americans argue which is worse - when users are monitored by authorities or when the private sector does the same. There is an opinion that the private sector is worse. I wonder what you need to do to be worse than the government?

Unknown Hitler Interview with Traudl Junge, Hitler's personal secretary, recorded by Gitta Sireny This article received the largest number of reader votes Date of publication: October 17, 2000 Traudl Junge is now eighty. She is slim, elegant and, despite the gray hair, still quite beautiful. One can easily imagine what she was like at twenty-two, in December 1942, when Hitler chose her from nine applicants who passed a competition in which several hundred young girls took part.

Magazine reading: issue eleven Inna Bulkina Date of publication: October 17, 2000 In the city of Leningrad there were usually two magazines. There was a sacramental couple, immortalized by a separate Resolution - “On the magazines “Zvezda” and “Leningrad”.

Prospects for hypertext novelism, or How to write a “Book of Books” Georgy Dalidovich Date of publication: October 17, 2000 The first part of the article examined the potential capabilities of the Internet as a medium for creating a hypertext novel. The boundaries of the medium and the hypertext multimedia work itself are blurred, and the hypernovel itself becomes a kind of creative medium.

Theater "Uydi-uydi" by Nikolai Kolyada, directed by Nikolai Kolyada In what other theater, besides Sovremennik, are playwrights loved as devotedly and tenderly as God grant them to be loved by others? Where else will they, the poor fellows, experiencing cruel torment from the chronic misunderstanding of the directors, be allowed to take on the production themselves? Nowhere. Only Galina Borisovna Volchek, a kind-hearted person, is ready to do this.

Now the quiet Nobel has flown by Sergey Kirukhin Date of publication: October 17, 2000 This year's Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded. And it was not awarded to Clinton at all. But it should have... After all, how well everything was planned: Camp David 2, a peace agreement between the Israelis and Palestinians, a brilliant diplomatic success, everyone stands up and unanimously praises the American genius.

Collection Video News Ten films this week Towards the release of the films "X-Men" and "Asterix and Obelix vs. Caesar" One of the undoubted, although dubious, achievements of twentieth-century culture is comics . That is, in one form or another, stories in pictures existed before, but the development of the genre took place precisely in the last hundred years. In essence, comics are a mutant genre. For centuries, humanity studied writing in order to eventually replace it with drawing...