A new kind of liberalism: Tocqueville’s “Recollections”
by Harvey Mansfield
On the defense of politics through the disparagement of philosophy.
On the defense of politics through the disparagement of philosophy.
On Bronzino’s draftsmanship.
On the role of religion in culture.
On lyric poetry.
On the life & times of the great McGonagall.
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On The Bridge Project’s As You Like It & The Tempest, Sexual Healing by Jonathan Leaf, Phantom Killer by Jan Buttram & David Greenspan’s Plays & The Myopia.
On “Matisse and Rodin” at the Musée Rodin, Paris.
On “Tino Sehgal” at the Solomon R. Guggeinheim Museum, New York.
On “Seventy Years Grandma Moses” at Galerie St. Etienne & “Carolanna Parlato: Vortical” at Elizabeth Harris Gallery.
On the Vienna Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall, Yefim Bronfman with the New York Philharmonic, Radu Lupu & the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, Bernarda Fink at Alice Tully Hall, Simon Boccanegra and Stiffelio at the Metropolitan Opera & the Daedalus Quartet at the Chamber Society Music of Lincoln Center.
On creeping Manichaeism in the public sphere.
A review of Red Star over Russia by David King.
A review of Poison, Shadow & Farewell by Javier MarÃas.
A review of Nazi Propganda in the Arab World by Jeffrey Herf.
A review of Ben Yagoda’s Memoir: A History.
On what to make of Dubai.
Notes & Comments
The Ayn Rand follies
by The Editors
On self-love, good & bad.