September 2014
Summer of discontent
Attitudes about patriotism, race, and more prove that The Sixties are still with us.
Attitudes about patriotism, race, and more prove that The Sixties are still with us.
On John Maynard Keynes’s revisionist history of World War I has had enduring—and harmful—consequences.
The complicated, often conflicted, life of Alexander Herzen.
Summer exhibitions in Florence and Verona reconsider the work of Pontormo, Rosso & Veronese.
Conservative arguments for and against the Common Core.
How Putin’s incompetence led to the crisis in Ukraine.
Reviews of Cabaret, Revolution in the Elbow of Ragnar Agnarsson, Furniture Painter, King Lear, and Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
On “Jeff Koons: A Retrospective” at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
On the renovated Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute and its two inaugural exhibitions, “Cast for Eternity: Ancient Ritual Bronzes” and “Raw Color: The Circles of David Smith.”
On the recently completed National September 11 Memorial and Museum.
On The Passenger, The Tsar’s Bride, the Mostly Mozart festival, and more.
On the ebola panic and media discussions of stupidity.
Hypertension, depressions, and the role of law in the enforcement of morals.
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