Uses & abuses of military history
by Victor Davis Hanson
On the value of the discipline and its applications.
Features
Federal foes
by Glenn Ellmers
On G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century, by Beverly Gage.
A realist in the higher sense
by Jacob Howland
On the lessons of Dostoevsky’s Brothers Karamazov.
The House of Morgenthau
by Myron Magnet
On Morgenthau: Power, Privilege, and the Rise of an American Dynasty, by Andrew Meier.
Poems
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The consolation of continuity
by Sean McGlynn
On the abbey of Fontevraud.
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Reflections
The interpretation of the tale
by Anthony Daniels
On The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare.
Theater
Triple crown
by Kyle Smith
On The Piano Lesson, The Old Man and the Pool, and Take Me Out.
Art
Rear window
by James Panero
On “Edward Hopper’s New York” at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Exhibition note
by Franklin Einspruch
On “Alex Katz: Theater and Dance” at the Colby Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine.
Exhibition note
by Mario Naves
On “An Italian Impressionist in Paris: Giuseppe De Nittis” at the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
Music
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On performances by Sondra Radvanovsky, Hannu Lintu with the New York Philharmonic, Ying Fang & Hélène Grimaud.
The media
Visions of the future
by James Bowman
On the aftermath of the midterm elections.
Books
Mind readers
by Paul Dean
A review of Samuell Beckett by Rosemarie Bodenheimer and William James by Philip Davis.
The constant conspiracist
by David Pryce-Jones
Spain in short
by Gerald Frost
The Ottoman patient
by Jeremy Black
In eis plurimae litterae
by Michael Fontaine
Notebook
Paeans to the potables
by R. Eric Tippin
On the history of drinking songs.
Notes & Comments
The mob comes for Madison
by The Editors
On the woke hijacking of James Madison’s Montpelier.