The mob comes for the art world
On “purity spirals” and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The mob comes for the art world
On “purity spirals” and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
We welcome Myron Magnet
Introducing our second annual Visiting Critic.
Features
Gray mists & ancient stones
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An excerpt from Book Two of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s forthcoming memoir Between Two Millstones.
Forests of Ardens
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On the Arden Shakespeare series.
Hypocrite hector
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A review of White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo & How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi.
Knights & their ladies fair
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On the cold-eyed realism of Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind.
Reflections
Week in review
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August 22, 2020
On Isaac Stern, Soviet architecture & Oxbridge history.
An authoritarian writes . . .
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August 21, 2020
On Anne Applebaum’s ideological corruption.
The Critic’s Notebook
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August 18, 2020
On George IV’s art collection, Julian Bream, Esteban Vicente & more from the world of culture.
Pax Ottomanica
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August 17, 2020
A review of “God’s Shadow”: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World by Alan Mikhail.
Week in review
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August 15, 2020
On Paul Valéry, the wit of William Riggin Travers & the demise of Britain’s second-hand bookshops.
Popular
This Week
1 Knights & their ladies fair by Bruce Bawer
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Knights & their ladies fair by Bruce Bawer
2 Hypocrite hector by Anthony Daniels
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Hypocrite hector by Anthony Daniels
3 A classical illness by James Panero
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A classical illness by James Panero
4 Hildebrand’s aesthetics of the universal by Gerald J. Russello
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Hildebrand’s aesthetics of the universal by Gerald J. Russello
5The mob comes for the art world
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The mob comes for the art world
6 The hypocrisy of Noam Chomsky by Keith Windschuttle
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The hypocrisy of Noam Chomsky by Keith Windschuttle
7 Under the aspect of eternity: the fiction of Flannery O’Connor by Bruce Bawer
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Under the aspect of eternity: the fiction of Flannery O’Connor by Bruce Bawer
8 The perversions of M. Foucault by Roger Kimball
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The perversions of M. Foucault by Roger Kimball
9 Ransom & co. revisited by Denis Donoghue
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Ransom & co. revisited by Denis Donoghue
10 A universal region: the fiction of Eudora Welty by Brooke Allen
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A universal region: the fiction of Eudora Welty by Brooke Allen
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