Reflections May 2019
Berlin’s walls
On Isaiah Berlin and his friends and family.
Department: “Reflections”
Reflections April 2019
Envy—the good kind
On the virtues of the classic vice.
Reflections February 2019
The Dartmouth College Case at 200
On the landmark Supreme Court decision about the college’s charter.
Reflections November 2018
Victory & defeat: the Armistice at 100
A retrospective look at the legacy of the First World War, which ended on November 11, 1918.
Reflections October 2018
Lies, damned lies & the European Union
On the demise of a doomed political union.
Reflections June 2018
American treasures
On the National Society of Colonial Dames of America.
Reflections March 2018
The permanence & failure of Surrealism
On what’s lost in surrealist poetry.
Reflections November 2017
Convenient & inconvenient monuments
A historical overview of Civil War monuments in the United States.
Reflections June 2017
The Met at middle age
On the fiftieth anniversary of the Metropolitan Opera House.
Reflections May 2017
The tragic sensibility
On the unpredictability of humanity, both in politics and on the stage.