October 21, 2015

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James Panero is the Executive Editor of The New Criterion. 

Steven W. Semes is Professor of Architecture at the University of Notre Dame and the author of The Future of the Past: A Conservation Ethic for Architecture, Urbanism, and Historic Preservation (W. W. Norton),