Jan 18, 2019
Week in review
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On Crusader culture, Jasper Johns, another Amazon takeover & more.
On Crusader culture, Jasper Johns, another Amazon takeover & more.
On Fritz Ascher, Taleb the philosopher, Munch more than The Scream & more.
On dictionary history, Harvey Mansfield, the year in art collecting & more.
On Gould’s Bach, Richard Weaver, collecting on credit & more.
On excavating the old “offenses” of Roger Scruton.
On a new collection of Simone Weil’s writings.
On a Frans Hals reunion, William James, Kirk’s centenary & more.
Westminster Abbey, Salvator Mundi, the “End of History” & more.
On the Dutch Golden Age, Simone Weil, The Last Utopians & more.
On a recent Kierkegaard conference at St. Olaf College in Minnesota.