November 2017
Scouts’ dishonor
On the Boy Scouts of America’s decision to admit girls in their ranks.
On the Boy Scouts of America’s decision to admit girls in their ranks.
On internal censure within the Left.
On the passing of Arthur Cinader.
A review of Housman Country: Into the Heart of England by Peter Parker.
A review of Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941 by Stephen Kotkin.
On the late career of Gioachino Rossini.
On the accusatory vitriol in Dante’s Divine Comedy.
A historical overview of Civil War monuments in the United States.
On the career of Stephen Sondheim and the current production of Sweeney Todd at the Barrow Street Theatre, New York.
On a retrospective of the sculptor’s career at Tate Britain, London.
On Stanford White’s Hall of Fame for Great Americans.
On a new Philip Glass concerto at the New York Philharmonic, The Tales of Hoffmann and Norma at the Metropolitan Opera, and opening night at Carnegie Hall.
On Orphée et Eurydice, by Christoph Willibald Gluck, at Lyric Opera of Chicago.
On shamelessness and hatred in today’s media.
On Israel’s three national literatures.
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