April 1998
Democratic despotism
On the legal shielding of students’ records from college admissions boards.
On the legal shielding of students’ records from college admissions boards.
On politically correct reading lists in San Francisco schools.
On the founding of the Historical Society.
The eighth in a series titled “Reflections on a cultural revolution”
On A History of the American People by Paul Johnson.
Reflections on Proust occasioned by the publication of The Year of Reading Proust: A Memoir in Real Time by Phyllis Rose & How Proust Can Change Your Life: Not a Novel by Alain de Botton.
On the Library of America edition of Baldwin’s essays & early novels, edited by Toni Morrison.
On Michelangelo Buonarroti’s poetry.
Matching translations from John Frederick Nims.
On Art by Yesmina Reza & other plays.
On Manet, Monet & the Gare Saint-Lazare at the Musée d’Orsay, Paris.
On “Visions of Paris: Robert Delaunay’s Series” at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
On the journalistic pretense of nonpartisanship.
On London architecture.
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