On the trouble with democracy in America.
Our Athenian American democracy
On what we can learn from the Athenian experiment.
Tocqueville versus progressive democracy
On intellectual elites in a democracy.
The Washington octopus
On the bureaucracy swallowing America’s capital.
Tocqueville’s limitations
On the shortcomings of Democracy in America today.
The red star returns
On the specter of communism.
Features
Democracy in America: an introduction
by Roger Kimball
On the trouble with democracy in America.
Our Athenian American democracy
by Victor Davis Hanson
On what we can learn from the Athenian experiment.
Tocqueville versus progressive democracy
by Daniel J. Mahoney
On intellectual elites in a democracy.
The Washington octopus
by James Piereson
On the bureaucracy swallowing America’s capital.
Tocqueville’s limitations
by Glenn Ellmers
On the shortcomings of Democracy in America today.
Week in review
by Suzanna Murawski
On authenticating a Picasso, Macmillan Publishers & the Palais Stoclet.
Books beyond the woods
by Toby Guise
On the fifth Transylvanian Book Festival in and around Richiș, Romania.
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A teller of tales
by Richard Tillinghast
On the life & work of Robert Louis Stevenson.
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Theater
Rookies of the year
by Kyle Smith
On JOB, Suffs, Oh, Mary! & Cellino v. Barnes.
Art
Lethière at the Clark
by Karen Wilkin
On “Guillaume Lethière” at the Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts.
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Music
Salzburg chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On performances at this year’s Salzburg Festival.
The media
Reality takes a holiday
by James Bowman
On the spectacle of the Democratic National Convention.
Books
Safety off
by James Campbell
On Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life by Michael Nott.
Bloodline
by Marc M. Arkin
On American Bloods: The Untamed Dynasty That Shaped a Nation by John Kaag.
The Belle curve
by Brooke Allen
On Balzac’s Paris by Eric Hazan & City of Light, City of Shadows: Paris in the Belle Époque by Mike Rapport.
Bellow falls
by Paul Devlin
On Saul Bellow: “I Was a Jew and an American and a Writer” by Gerald Sorin.
Not by chance
by Simon Heffer
On Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman’s Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue by Sonia Purnell.
Reading jail
by Anthony Daniels
On The Prison before the Panopticon by Jacob Abolafia.
The Boston Perry
by James Panero
On In the Company of Art: A Museum Director’s Private Journals by Perry T. Rathbone, edited by Belinda Rathbone.
Notes & Comments
“Diversity is our strength”
by the Editors
On the Islamist attack in Solingen, Germany.
Fretting about free speech
by the Editors
On the “privileges” of the First Amendment.