September 2020
The mob comes for the art world
On “purity spirals” and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
On “purity spirals” and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Introducing our second annual Visiting Critic.
An excerpt from Book Two of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s forthcoming memoir Between Two Millstones.
On the Arden Shakespeare series.
A review of White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo & How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi.
On the cold-eyed realism of Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind.
On the philosophy of Dietrich von Hildebrand.
On the Italian turncoat and fabulist Curzio Malaparte’s Diary of a Foreigner in Paris.
On the Russian doctor’s enduring diagnoses of societal ills.
On artists in lockdown.
A review of recent livestreams from the Orchestra of St Luke’s, The Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival, Les Arts Florissants & The Boulanger Initiative.
On the media’s attempt to explain away mob violence.
On the pathology of recent protests.
On the life of one of New York City’s great philanthropists.
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