November 2020
Keywords: hoist, petard
On how Princeton’s crusade against systemic racism has backfired.
On how Princeton’s crusade against systemic racism has backfired.
The New Criterion’s Visiting Critic delivers the second annual Circle Lecture.
On the legacy of Yevgeny Zamyatin’s seminal dystopian novel.
On the echoes of fascism in the critics of Zionism.
On Rebecca West’s appraisal of the anti-liberal “liberalism” of Alistair Cooke.
On the four-hundredth anniversary of the Pilgrims’ landing at Plymouth Rock.
On revisiting the works of the British mystery writer.
On the American socialite and expatriate Stuart Preston.
On a key work from Jackson Pollock’s early career.
On “Jordan Casteel: Within Reach” at the New Museum, New York.
On “George Bellows: Sport, Leisure, and Lithography” at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond.
On the history of Horatio Greenough’s controversial George Washington statue.
A review of recent livestreams from the “Met Stars Live in Concert” series.
On the media’s view of “manners” in the presidential debate.
A review of The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas by Machado de Assis, The Dominant Animal and Aug 9—Fog by Kathryn Scanlan & The Caretaker by Doon Arbus.
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