May 2017
Academic follies (still cont’d)
On the ever-rolling wave of tantrums and tumult on America’s campuses.
On the ever-rolling wave of tantrums and tumult on America’s campuses.
On the American party system, and our current disruptive moment.
On Doctor Zhivago & the dissident faith of Boris Pasternak.
On the recent works & widespread influence of Sir Roger Scruton.
On The Real People of Joyce’s Ulysses by Vivien Igoe.
On the unpredictability of humanity, both in politics and on the stage.
On Nairn’s London & the career of the British architecture critic.
On The Price at the American Airlines Theatre, Sweat at Studio 54, & Come From Away at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre.
On “Marsden Hartley’s Maine” at The Met Breuer, New York.
On “A World of Emotion: Ancient Greece, 700 BC–200 AD” at the Onassis Cultural Center, New York.
On “Seurat’s Circus Sideshow” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
On “Alexei Jawlensky” at the Neue Galerie, New York.
On “Whitney Biennial 2017” at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
On Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Cello Concerto performed by the New York Philharmonic, La campana sommersa performed by New York City Opera, a violin recital by Simone Lamsma at Carnegie Hall, a performance by the Munich Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall, & Eugene Onegin performed by the Metropolitan Opera.
On the media’s starring role in their own scandalous tales.
On Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders, Autumn by Ali Smith, Universal Harvester by John Darnielle, Ill Will by Dan Chaon, & I’d Die For You by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
On the life and influence of the prolific Catholic philosopher.
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