I t was in 1965, in the heyday of New York City as well as of The New Yorker magazine, that the New York Herald Tribune, in successive Sunday supplements, published a two-part takedown of The New ...
The performance was dull. “Insuperably dull,” to borrow a phrase from William F. Buckley Jr. (who was describing a book).
She pointed out that recent decisions by the Court have set off a new wave of partisan gerrymandering by both political ...
Raymond Asquith (1878–1916)—the son of the British prime minister H. H. Asquith, a wit, scholar, barrister, and, at the end of his life, soldier—was the stuff of legend. In the years before 1914, he ...
On Pericles, William Hogarth, Tomás Luis de Victoria, Russell Kirk, Frederic Edwin Church & more from the world of culture. William Hogarth, A Rake’s Progress, Plate 8: In Bedlam, 1763, Engraving, ...
The question before us is this: what do progressives really want? It’s always worth attending to what people tell you they ...
On Marco Rubio’s address in Athens.
On a recital from Martha Argerich and Renaud Capuçon in Salzburg.
T he lesson of Martin Stannard’s authorized life of Muriel Spark (Muriel Spark: The Biography, 2009)—a conventionally framed linear progress through Spark’s eighty-eight years on the planet (1918–2006 ...
On the nineteenth-century French historian & literary critic. We live in an age that has grown not merely impatient with ...
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