The hosts of "The View" were as delighted by the unexpected cheating scandal exposed at a Coldplay concert last week as most ...

The reason we depend on the dumbness of computer games is that in a game of intelligence vs. intelligence, it’s never a fair fight; the game has total control. We just wouldn’t play—at least if the ...

Dumbness and depth go together. Still waters run deep, while a constant chatter disturbs the surface of a shallow stream. We all need periods of dumbness in order to give ourselves time to respond.

There’s a dumbness that sort of cracks.” I’ve been thinking about that a lot lately — about art that doesn’t exactly articulate anything complicated or particularly specific but cracks you open anyway ...

A senator who was linked to illegal drugs a couple of administrations ago may have inadvertently found the phrase that captures the character of the present dispensation: “dumb and cruel.” Clearly, ...

Infants and toddlers who come to my clinic are often cranky. Instead of the old techniques of carrying them around, distracting them with toys, or my aquarium, today, more and more parents tackle ...

So if you want to boost exports and create more jobs you need to talk down the dollar, right? That's what Treasury Secretary John Snow and the National Association of Manufacturers have been ...

Michael Cunningham joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss Harold Brodkey’s “Dumbness Is Everything,” from a 1996 issue of the magazine.