Harvard admits its preferences
by Heather Mac Donald
On Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard College & racial preferences in college admissions.
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Thinking about the Ottoman threat
by James Hankins
On Useful Enemies: Islam and the Ottoman Empire in Western Political Thought, 1450–1750 by Noel Malcolm.
John Ruskin: sermons & stones
by Paul Dean
On John Ruskin: Selected Prose (21st-Century Oxford Authors), edited by Richard Lansdown.
Ben-Gurion’s reality
by David Pryce-Jones
On A State at Any Cost: The Life of David Ben-Gurion by Tom Segev, translated by Haim Watzman.
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The new cultural cringe
by Simon Heffer
On societal self-loathing in Australia.
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Journal of a conflicted man
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On the last words of W. N. P. Barbellion.
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Not OK
by Kyle Smith
On The Great Society at the Vivian Beaumont Theater, Oklahoma! at the Circle in the Square Theater, and Tootsie at the Marquis Theater.
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Flanders at the Palazzo Ducale
by Karen Wilkin
On “From Titian to Rubens: Masterpieces from Antwerp and other Flemish Collections” at the Palazzo Ducale, Venice.
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by James Ewing
On “Homer at the Beach: A Marine Painter’s Journey, 1869–1880” at the Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, Massachusetts.
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by Mario Naves
On “Vija Celmins: To Fix the Image in Memory” at the Met Breuer.
Two if by sea
by James Panero
On “J. M. W. Turner: Watercolors from Tate” at the Mystic Seaport Museum, Mystic, Connecticut.
Music
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On Philip Glass and Kelli O’Hara at the New York Philharmonic; Paul Jacobs and the French organ tradition; Porgy and Bess at the Metropolitan Opera; the composer Jessie Montgomery; the Cleveland Orchestra at Carnegie Hall; and some recently departed musical standouts.
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Revolutionism redux, part III
by James Bowman
The administrative state has its day.
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First persons, singular
by Andrew Stuttaford
On The Ditch by Herman Koch, translated by Sam Garrett; Family Record by Patrick Modiano, translated by Mark Polizzotti; Metropolitan Stories: A Novel by Christine Coulson; and Girl: A Novel by Edna O’Brien.
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Up against the wall
by Daniel Johnson
On The Great Great Wall: Along the Borders of History from China to Mexico by Ian Volner.
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A genuinely transgressive act
by The Editors
On the dedication of Christ Chapel at Hillsdale College.