Culture against civilization
by James Piereson
On reasons to be pessimistic and optimistic about the future of Western civilization.
On reasons to be pessimistic and optimistic about the future of Western civilization.
On the Roman novel by Petronius.
On “Donatello: The Renaissance” at the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi and the Musei del Bargello, Florence.
On the growing class of “intellectuals.”
On efforts to reclaim the Guelph Treasure.
On Plaza Suite, Just For Us & Coal Country.
On “Joan Mitchell” at the Baltimore Museum of Art.
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.
On the latest Whitney Biennial, “Quiet as It’s Kept.”
On performances at Carnegie Hall & Lincoln Center.
On “woke” wars and real ones.
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.
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.