Links of interest from the past week:
To Orchestrate a Renaissance
Andrew Balio, The Imaginative Conservative
Musical Gold
Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker
Shut Up, Please
Joe Queenan, The Weekly Standard
How Many Greek Legends Were Really True?
Armand d’Angour, BBC
Don’t Send your Kid to the Ivy League
William Deresiewicz, The New Republic
From our pages:
From Super to Nuts
James Bowman
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Christine Emba was the Hilton Kramer Fellow in Criticism at The New Criterion. She was previously an editor at The Economist Intelligence Unit. Her work has appeared in National Review, First Things, Verily magazine, and other outlets.