The law & Richard Epstein
by Hadley Arkes
Analyzing the views of the distinguished legal scholar Richard Epstein.
Features
Artists & politics
by Donald Kagan
A lecture delivered by Donald Kagan after he received the second Edmund Burke Award for Service to Culture and Society.
Reclaiming Madison
by James Piereson
A new biography of James Madison hopes to change the way we remember America’s fourth President.
Conservatives & higher ed
by Steven F. Hayward
A look at what has caused the dearth of conservatives in higher education, and why we should be concerned.
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Letters from the World
World history, local level
by James Franklin
How Latvia beat the odds after the Cold War.
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Reconsiderations
Gatsby meets Macomber
by Jeffrey Meyers
Decoding the parallels between Fitzgerald’s Gatsby and Hemingway’s “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber.”
Theater
Great depressions
by Kevin D. Williamson
Reviews of Of Mice and Men, The Velocity of Autumn, The Cripple of Inishmaan.
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Art
Degenerate art in New York
by Karen Wilkin
On “Degenerate Art: The Attack on Modern Art in Nazi Germany, 1937” at the Neue Galerie, New York.
Cast in a bad light
by Daniel Grant
The art market and its problem with reproductions.
Gallery chronicle
by James Panero
On “Peak Bushwick” and Bushwick Open Studios.
Music
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On recent performances including Christoph von Dohnányi, Stephen Hough, the Metropolitan Opera, and more.
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The media
Some eminent utopians
by James Bowman
On data-obsession and Thomas Piketty’s Capital.
Verse chronicle
Civil power
by William Logan
Reviews of Caribou , by Charles Wright; Directing Herbert White, by James Franco; The Road to Emmaus, by Spencer Reece; Roget’s Illusion, by Linda Bierds; and Broken Hierarchies: Poems, 1952–2012, by Geoffrey Hill, edited by Kenneth Haynes.
Books
The arc of empire
by Sarah Ruden
Ground of her beseeching
by Katherine Messenger
A review of A Prayer Journal by Flannery O’Connor.
Madman or saint?
by Samuel Hux
A bookman of the people
by Henrik Bering
The essays of slender means
by Brooke Allen
A modern classic
by Peter Pennoyer
Down the Rabbit hole
by Carl Rollyson
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Notebook
Beauty out of madness
by Theodore Dalrymple
Looking at the Prinzhorn Collection, a collection of artwork by psychotic patients.
Notes & Comments
Shut up, they explained
by The Editors
On the “disinvitation” of commencement speakers, trigger warnings for classic literature, and privilege.
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