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Articles by Jonathan Salem-Wiseman
But is it a Bernini? A Tale of Contested Identity in the Art World
The permanent collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) in Toronto contains a bronze sculpture entitled The Crucified Christ (Corpus) and attributed to the seventeenth-century Roman artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini. The piece was donated to the art gallery by the late Murray Frum in 2006. What isn't well known is that the bronze was lost to history for centuries, and even after decades on the art market, the campaign to attribute the work to Bernini only began about twenty years ago.
Scientology’s War on Psychiatry
Anyone driving along Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood has probably noticed a building bearing the sign: “Psychiatry: An Industry of Death.” This boldly named “museum,” run by the Church of Scientology’s Citizens Commission on Human Rights, purports to showcase the atrocities committed by psychiatric medicine on a world-historical scale. Most people know now that Scientology’s founder, L.
Constitutional Epistemology
These days, everyone recognizes the importance of teaching “critical thinking.” It appears in course “learning outcomes,” and has even…
Rinaldo Walcott’s On Property-A Review
A review of On Property by Rinaldo Walcott. Biblioasis, 96 pages (May 25th, 2021) The true founder of civil society was the first man who, having enclosed a piece of land, thought of saying, “This is mine,” and came across people simple enough to believe him. How many crimes, wars, murders and how much misery and horror the human race might have been spared if someone had pulled up the stakes or filled in the ditch, and cried out to his fellows: “Beware of listening to this charlatan.
Secrets of the Skin, or, Why Foucault Might Have a Problem with White Fragility
One confesses—or is forced to confess.—Michel Foucault The heartbeat of antiracism is confession.—Ibram X. Kendi I have a racist worldview, deep racial bias, racism patterns, and investments in the racist system that has elevated me.—Robin DiAngelo Anyone who has been hanging around Liberal Arts faculties over the last thirty-five years will surely detect the heady aromatics of Foucault’s discourse analysis in much of what passes for today’s critical race theory.
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