Arts & Letters

Dear Cachexia, Well, isn’t this impressive! You’ve had charge of this patient of yours for just two…

Watch on the Right: Conservative Intellectuals in the Reagan Era by j. david hoeveler, jr. university of…

Dante and Michelangelo You were here; Brunelleschi, Donatello, Savonarola, the Medici, Machiavelli, Ghiberti, Leonardo da Vinci—All left their mark; But none is so…

It is now more than thirty years since C. P. Snow’s Cambridge Rede Lecture, “The Two Cultures…

There! He’s one of the first onstage! A less disheveled crowd than usual . . . Under…

The expression of art—the exploration of figurative and abstract thought in tangible external forms—is unique to human…

The Conquest of Paradise: Christopher Columbus and the Columbian Legacyby kirkpatrick saleknopf, 453 pages, $24.95 As every…

Three Rival Versions of Moral Inquiry by alasdair macintyre university of notre dame press, 241 pages, $24.95…

Is Latin America Turning Protestant? The Politics of Evangelical Growth by david stoll university of california press,…

“Sherman Led by Victory” Is a St. Gaudens statue, A cast-bronze allegory. With Victory as a woman Pulling his horse’s bridle Out…

Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither; Ripeness is all.  —King Lear For…

Sham Pearls for Real Swine by franky schaeffer wolgemuth & hyatt, 290 pages, $14.95 In 1948, a…

Saddam Hussein’s invasion and annexation of Kuwait may have thrown the world economy into confusion, but it…

We kept building our steeples higher until emissions streamed to thousands of miles away, but distant lakes…

Innocence and Experience by stuart hampshire harvard university press, 195 pages, $20 Stuart Hampshire begins his new…