Max Horkheimer Died 35 Years Ago Today

So reports The Virtual Stoa.  I taught his and Adorno's The Dialectic of Enlightenment in a graduate seminar last year, the first time I had ever had occasion to teach it.  It is alternately brilliant and strange.  The analysis of "the culture industry" ought to be required reading for schoolchildren, before the culture industry consumes what is left of their sensibilities.