Topic: “Culture”

Going under with the overclass

On troubling trends among the elite.

On the founding editor of The New Criterion.

Excerpted from a new translation of Cocteau’s Letter to the Americans.

On Scottish voyages, Benjamin Franklin, Simone Dinnerstein, François Couperin, Mark Morris & more.

On a production of Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’Amore at the Palm Beach Opera.

On Thomas Sowell, Ettore Spalletti, Mozart, Sara Mearns, Michelangelo & more from the world of culture.

On the loss of purpose in cultural institutions.

On George Eliot’s Silas Marner.

On Skeleton Crew, Prayer for the French Republic, and Intimate Apparel.