Culture against civilization
by James Piereson
On reasons to be pessimistic and optimistic about the future of Western civilization.
Features
Living the “Satyricon”
by Victor Davis Hanson
On the Roman novel by Petronius.
The many Donatellos
by Eric Gibson
On “Donatello: The Renaissance” at the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi and the Musei del Bargello, Florence.
The plague of “mind-working”
by Stephen H. Balch
On the growing class of “intellectuals.”
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Reflections
Blood & treasure
by Saul Rosenberg
On efforts to reclaim the Guelph Treasure.
Theater
From the Big Apple to Appalachia
by Kyle Smith
On Plaza Suite, Just For Us & Coal Country.
Art
Joan Mitchell’s machines
by Karen Wilkin
On “Joan Mitchell” at the Baltimore Museum of Art.
Gallery chronicle
by James Panero
On “The Utopian Avant-Garde: Soviet Film Posters of the 1920s” at Poster House, New York and “Thornton Willis: A Painting Survey, Six Decades, 1967–2017” at David Richard Gallery, Chelsea and Harlem, New York.
Exhibition note
by Mario Naves
On the latest Whitney Biennial, “Quiet as It’s Kept.”
Music
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On performances at Carnegie Hall & Lincoln Center.
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The media
True evil
by James Bowman
On “woke” wars and real ones.
Fiction chronicle
Unimaginable, imagined, imaginary
by Andrew Stuttaford
On Pollak’s Arm by Hans von Trotha, Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan, Civilizations by Laurent Binet & It’s Getting Dark by Peter Stamm.
Books
Notebook
All the rest is talk
by John Steele Gordon
On the Broadway lyric.
Notes & Comments
Wanting it both ways
by The Editors
On free speech in universities.
Pigment problems
by The Editors
On identity politics in medical institutions.