Notes & Comments November 2021
Columbus Day
On recent hostility towards the fifteenth-century explorer.
Topic: “Statues”
Oct 30, 2020
What’s old is new again
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On “Notre-Dame de Paris, de Victor Hugo à Eugène Viollet-le-Duc” at the Archaeological Crypt of the Ile de la Cité, Paris.
Art November 2020
Peripatetic president
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On the history of Horatio Greenough’s controversial George Washington statue.
Features October 2020
Of, by & for the freedmen
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On the aesthetics and history of the Freedman’s Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Aug 27, 2020
The most dangerous place to be
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On outrage culture’s debt to postmodern theory.
Aug 17, 2020
James Panero on “a classical illness”
featuring
A new podcast from the Executive Editor of The New Criterion.
Jul 28, 2020
The Critic’s Notebook
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On Melville’s Snug Harbor, Louis Kahn, Calder Opera Guides & more from the world of culture.
Jun 26, 2020
Churchill boxed
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On the guarding of monuments.
Jun 23, 2020
Journalism self-destructs
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On the willful myopia of the press and its readership.
Art November 2017
Hall of flame
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On Stanford White’s Hall of Fame for Great Americans.