Notebook September 2020
A classical illness
On the pathology of recent protests.
On the pathology of recent protests.
On the life of one of New York City’s great philanthropists.
On anger and its contemporary causes.
How the diarist passed the Great Plague of London.
On the prolific critic of German literature.
Remembering the cultural critic and longtime New Criterion contributor.
On The Great Great Wall: Along the Borders of History from China to Mexico by Ian Volner.
On the imperiled excavations in the Middle East.
On the life and works of the European historian.
A remembrance of the Hungarian writer and frequent New Criterion contributor.