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.
Department: “Reflections”
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.
Reflections February 2017
Why historians get it wrong
On the misapplication of historical lessons.
Reflections October 2016
A Victorian brace
On the spirit of an age as told in two works by A. S. Byatt.
Reflections June 2016
The other McCarthy
A reassessment of Mary McCarthy’s antiwar activism.