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A review of The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution, by Lindsay M. Chervinsky.
On a rare opportunity for consensus in 2020.
On a new production of Verdi’s Otello by the National Opera in Washington, D.C.
On the use of impeachment as an election strategy.
On lunch with Trotsky’s murder weapon at the new International Spy Museum.
On the Brexit delay and the Mueller report.
On AI in museums, the pigeons of WWII, Tchaikovsky’s innovations & more.
On a recent conference about Delba Winthrop’s Aristotle: Democracy and Political Science.
On compositions inspired by war, recently revived for Armistice Day.
On a rare performance of Gounod’s Sapho by Washington Concert Opera.