Arts & Letters

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Give the National Endowment for the Arts Back to the Public

Michael Astrue

For decades, Americans have become increasingly alienated from the American arts establishment. The main source for their…

Jane Austen Against the Smartphone

John Byron Kuhner

On this day in 1813, England’s most beloved novel was published. Pride and Prejudice has become the…

Unseen Skies

John Wilson

If you have been following this column for a while, you know I love the very idea…

Roger Scruton’s The Disappeared, Revisited

Daniel J. Mahoney

“It was inconceivable that in a town dedicated to prosperity, comfort and English order, a girl might…

Ralph Lauren, American Patriot

Isabella Redjai

On January 4, President Joe Biden honored nineteen individuals with the Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor.…

The Mercurial Bob Dylan

Eddie Larow

There’s a version of Bob Dylan for everyone: small-town boy from Duluth, Minnesota; scrappy folk troubadour of…

Theater of the Divine

Mark Bauerlein

The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Peter Kreeft joins in…

An Iconoclastic Inferno

James Matthew Wilson

The Divine Comedy: InfernoBy Dante Alighieri, Translated by Jason M. BaxterAngelico, 260 pages, $19.95 Jason M. Baxter,…

The Old Testament Roots of American Christian Music

Howard Husock

One need not be a historian of the Puritans and their quest for a New Jerusalem to…

Past and Future Hopes

John Wilson

A year ago at this time, I devoted a column to “Hopes and Wishes for 2024”—mostly hopes,…

Paleofuturism

Nathan Pinkoski

Dawn’s Early Light:Taking Back Washington to Save Americaby kevin d. robertsbroadside, 304 pages, $32 When Kevin Roberts…

Declaring Independence

Matthew Schmitz

American Heretics:Religious Adversaries of Liberal Orderby jerome e. copulskyyale, 384 pages, $40 In the summer of 1775,…

The Church of Empathy

Carl R. Trueman

Circle of Hope:A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Churchby eliza griswoldfarrar, straus and…

The Death and Life of Bohemia

Matthew Gasda

Talkin’ Greenwich Village:The Heady Rise and Slow Fall of America’s Bohemian Music Capitalby david brownehachette, 352 pages,…

Goethe’s Bargain

Sebastian Milbank

Goethe:His Faustian Lifeby a. n. wilsonbloomsbury, 416 pages, $35 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is among the most…