The diversity myth
by Peter Thiel
On multiculturalism as misdirection.
Features
Emperor of chaos
by Gary Saul Morson
On Professor of Apocalypse: The Many Lives of Jacob Taubes by Jerry Z. Muller.
Pfitzner’s end
by Adam Kirsch
On Hans Pfitzner & the conservative artist.
Dutch treats
by Benjamin Riley
On “Vrel: Forerunner of Vermeer” at the Mauritshuis, The Hague & “Vermeer” at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
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Letter from London
New king, old country
by Simon Heffer
On the coronation of King Charles III.
Reflections
Business & beauty
by Timothy Jacobson
On William Truesdale & the Lackawanna Railroad.
Reconsiderations
A quarry of quandaries
by Anthony Daniels
On the plays The Eldest Son & Justice by John Galsworthy.
Intolerant society
by Glenn Harlan Reynolds
On the sad state of free speech on campus.
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Theater
Dancing through the past
by Kyle Smith
On Sweeney Todd, Camelot & New York, New York.
Art
Seeing Bonnard
by Karen Wilkin
On “Bonnard: The Experience of Seeing” at Acquavella Galleries, New York.
The inside-out diorama
by James Panero
On the new Richard Gilder Center at the American Museum of Natural History.
Exhibition note
by Gregory T. Clark
On “Hugo van der Goes: Between Pain and Bliss” at the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin.
Exhibition note
by Sean McGlynn
On “After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art” at the National Gallery, London.
Music
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On recent performances at Carnegie Hall, the Metropolitan Opera & Lincoln Center.
Concert note
by George Loomis
On Lucia di Lammermoor at the Teatro alla Scala, Milan.
The media
Out the Overton window
by James Bowman
On what the media deems newsworthy.
Verse chronicle
Down on the corner
by William Logan
On new poetry by B. H. Fairchild, Devin Johnston, Sharon Olds, Robin Coste Lewis, Thomas Kinsella & Ada Limón.
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Roman Romanticism
by Stephen Schmalhofer
On Francis Marion Crawford’s Saracinesca tetralogy.
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Urban nightmare
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