THE FEED: FEB 9TH

Today's links:

In defence of Elizabeth Gilbert (Smart Set)

Leon Wieseltier on Andrew Sullivan's "condescension toward the Jews" (New Republic)

Producers still ponying up on Broadway (Variety)

Eli Broad's impact on LA culture (New York Times)

Today's quote:

"Graduate school in the humanities is a trap. It is designed that way. It is structurally based on limiting the options of students and socializing them into believing that it is shameful to abandon "the life of the mind." ~ Thomas H. Benton, "The Big Lie About the 'Life of the Mind'" (Chronicle of Higher Education)

(Via The Economist)

Picture credit: Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com