“One very simple principle”
by Roger Kimball
The third in a series titled The betrayal of liberalism.
The third in a series titled The betrayal of liberalism.
On the composer, painter & novelist Gerald Berners.
On the daily strains of Russian life.
On Kafka’s The Castle and its translations.
On Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake.
On From Van Eyck to Bruegel: Early Netherlandish Painting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
On Mark Rothko at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
On Cold War, the CNN television series.
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On Bech at Bay by John Updike & Master Georgie by Beryl Bainbridge.
On Michelangelo—The Last Judgement: A Glorious Restoration by Loren Partridge, with contributions by Fabrizio Mancinelli & Gianluigi Colalucci & Michelangelo’s Last Judgement: The Renaissance Response by Bernadine Barnes
On Manifesto of a Passionate Moderate: Unfashionable Essays by Susan Haack
On 1898: The Birth of the American Century by David Traxel, Man Flies: The Story of Alberto Santos-Dumont, Master of the Balloon, Conquerer of the Air by Nancy Winters & Man From Babel by Eugene Jolas
On the assassination of Aldo Moro & Italian conspiracy theories
Notes & Comments
Liberal screaming
by The Editors
On Going Down Screaming, Andrew Sullivan’s New York Times article of October 11
“In the end character is destiny”
by The Editors
On the state of the press during the Clinton presidency.