On intellectual elites in a democracy.
On the trouble with democracy in America.
On what we can learn from the Athenian experiment.
On intellectual elites in a democracy.
On the bureaucracy swallowing America’s capital.
On the shortcomings of Democracy in America today.
On smuggled goods, Adam & Eve & the history of drawing.
On a recital by the baritone Lucas Meachem for Vocal Arts D.C.
On the life & work of Robert Louis Stevenson.
On JOB, Suffs, Oh, Mary! & Cellino v. Barnes.
On “Guillaume Lethière” at the Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts.
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On performances at this year’s Salzburg Festival.
On the spectacle of the Democratic National Convention.
On Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life by Michael Nott.
On American Bloods: The Untamed Dynasty That Shaped a Nation by John Kaag.
On Balzac’s Paris by Eric Hazan & City of Light, City of Shadows: Paris in the Belle Époque by Mike Rapport.
On Saul Bellow: “I Was a Jew and an American and a Writer” by Gerald Sorin.
On Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman’s Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue by Sonia Purnell.
On The Prison before the Panopticon by Jacob Abolafia.
On In the Company of Art: A Museum Director’s Private Journals by Perry T. Rathbone, edited by Belinda Rathbone.
Notes & Comments
“Diversity is our strength”
by the Editors
On the Islamist attack in Solingen, Germany.
Fretting about free speech
by the Editors
On the “privileges” of the First Amendment.