Bertolt Brecht’s Marie-Antoinettism
by Anthony Daniels
The German poet, playwright, and Marxist.
Features
Humanities: doomed to lose?
by Mark Bauerlein
How humanities professors are letting identity politics destroy their discipline.
The compensations of Michael Oakeshott
by Timothy Fuller
Revisiting the philosopher through his personal notebooks.
Virgil Thomson: assessing the critic
by James F. Penrose
On the sharp-tongued music critic of the 1940s.
Poems
Most Popular
Letters from the World
A new dawn in India
by Christie Davies
Prime Minister Modi inspires optimism in a divided India.
Subscribe for access to every article and ten print issues.
Reflections
A practical use for history
by Donald Kagan
Sir James Headlam-Morley’s success was due to his education in Classics.
Reconsiderations
Debo, Duchess of Devonshire
by David Pryce-Jones
On memories of the Duchess and the rest of the Mitford clan.
A MESSAGE FROM THE EDITORS
Support our crucial work and join us in strengthening the bonds of civilization.
Your donation sustains our efforts to inspire joyous rediscoveries.
Theater
Not acting their ages
by Kevin D. Williamson
Reviews of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, This Is Our Youth, & Matilda
Art
Spain’s history painter
by Karen Wilkin
On “Goya: Order and Disorder,” at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Exhibition Note
by Mario Naves
On “Thomas Hart Benton’s America Today Mural Rediscovered” at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Gallery chronicle
by James Panero
On “Chris Martin” at Anton Kern Gallery; “Doppler Shift” at the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey; and “Matthew Miller: Can’t You See It, I Am One” at Hansel and Gretel Picture Garden Pocket Utopia.
out of interstitials
Music
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On Unsuk Chin’s Clarinet Concerto, a recital by René Pape, the Berlin Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall, and more.
out of interstitials
The media
The uses of outrage
by James Bowman
Outrage is the media’s new tool.
out of interstitials
Fiction chronicle
Wars & rumors of wars
by Stefan Beck
Reviews of Perfidia, by James Ellroy; In the Wolf’s Mouth, by Adam Foulds; The Zone of Interest, by Martin Amis; and The Laughing Monsters, by Denis Johnson.
out of interstitials
Books
The great soldier-statesman
by Conrad Black
Benn in translation
by John Simon
A life of writing
by Ernest Hilbert
The war on the home front
by Nick Cater
Review of Australia’s Secret War by Hal G. P. Colebatch
A woman of her word
by Carl Rollyson
A royal tale
by Andrew Roberts
Notebook
The German Plath
by Jeffrey Meyers
Sylvia’s German roots pervaded her life and work.
Notes & Comments
The Latin vote
by The Editors
Why everyone should learn the ancient languages.