Reconsiderations June 2016
The master propagandist
On Jacques-Louis David’s moral foibles.
Department: “Reconsiderations”
Reconsiderations February 2016
Why “Civilisation” matters
Why Kenneth Clark’s 1969 television show still matters today.
Reconsiderations September 2015
Between the lines of history
A look at two of important players in the world of historical fiction: Robert Merle and Arturo Pérez-Reverte.
Reconsiderations June 2015
The heaven-taught ploughman
On the mixed critical reception of Robert Burns.
Reconsiderations March 2015
Fun facts & fascism
Revisiting the lessons from Rick Atkinson’s An Army at Dawn
Reconsiderations January 2015
Remembering Dennis O’Driscoll
On the Irish poet and essayist.
Reconsiderations December 2014
Augustus & the birth of the West
Is Augustus still relevant 2000 years after his death?
Reconsiderations November 2014
Debo, Duchess of Devonshire
On memories of the Duchess and the rest of the Mitford clan.
Reconsiderations October 2014
Men of the Baroque: the sculptor & the poet
On the works of Gianlorenzo Bernini and Richard Crashaw.
Reconsiderations June 2014
Gatsby meets Macomber
Decoding the parallels between Fitzgerald’s Gatsby and Hemingway’s “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber.”