Reflections May 2019
Berlin’s walls
On Isaiah Berlin and his friends and family.
On Isaiah Berlin and his friends and family.
On the virtues of the classic vice.
On the landmark Supreme Court decision about the college’s charter.
A retrospective look at the legacy of the First World War, which ended on November 11, 1918.
On the demise of a doomed political union.
On the National Society of Colonial Dames of America.
On what’s lost in surrealist poetry.
A historical overview of Civil War monuments in the United States.
On the fiftieth anniversary of the Metropolitan Opera House.
On the unpredictability of humanity, both in politics and on the stage.