Democratic despotism
On the legal shielding of students’ records from college admissions boards
Democratic despotism, II
On politically correct reading lists in San Francisco schools
A ray of hope?
On the founding of the Historical Society
A nostalgia for Molotovs: “The New York Review”
by Roger Kimball
The eighth in a series titled “Reflections on a cultural revolution
Paul Johnson's America
by Hadley Arkes
On A History of the American People by Paul Johnson
Monsieur Proust's masterwork
by Joseph Epstein
Reflections on Proust occasioned by the publication of The Year of Reading Proust: A Memoir in Real Time by Phyllis Rose & How Proust Can Change Your Life: Not a Novel by Alain de Botton
The better James Baldwin
by Brooke Allen
On the Library of America edition of Baldwin’s essays & early novels, edited by Toni Morrison
Four poems by Michelangelo
by John Frederick Nims
Matching translations from John Frederick Nims
Critics & collectors
by Mark Steyn
On Art by Yesmina Reza & other plays
Manet & Monet at the Musée d'Orsay
by Karen Wilkin
On Manet, Monet & the Gare Saint-Lazare at the Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Robert Delaunay at the Guggenheim
by Mario Naves
On Visions of Paris: Robert Delaunay's Series at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Nonpartisan review
by James Bowman
On the journalistic pretense of nonpartisanship
Solti on Solti
by John Simon
Review of Memoirs by Sir Georg Solti, with Harvey Sachs
A Richardson round-up
by J. Duncan Berry
Reviews of Henry Hobson Richardson & the Small Public Library in America: A Study in Typology by Kenneth A. Breisch, Henry Hobson Richardson: A Genius for Architecture by Margaret Henderson Floyd & Living Architecture: A Biography of H. H. Richardson by James F. O'Gorman
Poet of Paris Streets
by Katherine Knorr
Review of Léon-Paul Fargue by Jean-Paul Goujon