James Panero on Turner’s watercolors
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Features
Harvard admits its preferences
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On Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard College & racial preferences in college admissions.
Thinking about the Ottoman threat
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On Useful Enemies: Islam and the Ottoman Empire in Western Political Thought, 1450–1750 by Noel Malcolm.
John Ruskin: sermons & stones
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On John Ruskin: Selected Prose (21st-Century Oxford Authors), edited by Richard Lansdown.
Ben-Gurion’s reality
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On A State at Any Cost: The Life of David Ben-Gurion by Tom Segev, translated by Haim Watzman.
Letter from Sydney
Art
Week in review
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November 15, 2019
On a sleeper Rembrandt and the “Head of Alexander.”
Capital jealousy
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November 13, 2019
On a new production of Verdi’s Otello by the National Opera in Washington, D.C.
The Critic’s Notebook
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November 12, 2019
On Melville’s whales, Westminster Abbey, C. K. Scott Moncrieff & more from the world of culture.
Breaking the wrong ground
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November 11, 2019
On the use of impeachment as an election strategy.
Week in review
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November 08, 2019
On Ruskin, atheism & tyrannical architecture.
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1 Leninthink by Gary Saul Morson
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Leninthink by Gary Saul Morson
2 Thinking about the Ottoman threat by James Hankins
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Thinking about the Ottoman threat by James Hankins
3 Barbarians in the academy by James Piereson
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Barbarians in the academy by James Piereson
4 A genuinely transgressive act
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A genuinely transgressive act
5 Honor wagered by John J. Miller
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Honor wagered by John J. Miller
6 Harvard admits its preferences by Heather Mac Donald
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Harvard admits its preferences by Heather Mac Donald
7 A mind emparadised by Eric Ormsby
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A mind emparadised by Eric Ormsby
8 Gesamtkunstwerk by Daniel Johnson
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Gesamtkunstwerk by Daniel Johnson
9 The perversions of M. Foucault by Roger Kimball
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The perversions of M. Foucault by Roger Kimball
10 Ben-Gurion’s reality by David Pryce-Jones
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Ben-Gurion’s reality by David Pryce-Jones
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