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On the new president’s plans.
On fiction, poetry & medicine.
On the Taber Sears mural in the New York City Council Chambers.
On Tangled Paths: A Life of Aby Warburg, by Hans Hönes.
On “Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
On dispatches from the condemned.
Features
MAGA agonistes
by Victor Davis Hanson
On the new president’s plans.
The medical outlook
by Anthony Daniels
On fiction, poetry & medicine.
Municipal decay
by Michele H. Bogart
On the Taber Sears mural in the New York City Council Chambers.
The old gods return
by Mark F. McClay
On Tangled Paths: A Life of Aby Warburg, by Hans Hönes.
Week in review
by Suzanna Murawski
On Berthe Weill, a gang of thieves & the Hohenzollerns.
The DOGE team zeroes out the National Endowment for Democracy
by James Piereson
On the Washington nonprofit during Trump’s second term.
Most popular
- Rewriting the history of the British Empire
by Keith Windschuttle
- MAGA agonistes
by Victor Davis Hanson
- Don’t let’s be beastly
by the Editors
- The untold story of Reconstruction
by Gene Dattel
- The DOGE team zeroes out the National Endowment for Democracy
by James Piereson
Letter from London
Shaming the true
by Nicholas Shrimpton
On a recent Globe production of The Taming of the Shrew.
Reconsiderations
Cape Cod’s mermaid surrealist
by Trey Heller
On the painter Ralph Eugene Cahoon Jr.
Theater
Harmony & discord
by Kyle Smith
On Maybe Happy Ending, Eureka Day & Cult of Love.
Art
Orphic obscurity
by Karen Wilkin
On “Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris, 1910–1930,” at the Guggenheim Museum, New York.
When art goes to war
by James Panero
On Sabin Howard’s new World War I memorial.
Exhibition note
by Benjamin Riley
On “Sorolla and the Sea,” at the Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach.
Music
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On musical performances at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall & more.
Books
Getting the Gipper wrong
by Steven F. Hayward
On Reagan: His Life and Legend, by Max Boot.
Writing wrongs
by Brooke Allen
On Academic Writing as if Readers Matter, by Leonard Cassuto.
Arising from the azure main
by Jeremy Black
On The Price of Victory, by N. A. M. Rodger.
America’s grandest wager
by Gordon G. Chang
On Living U.S.–China Relations, by David M. Lampton.
Civilization evoked
by Alfred Corn
On the letters of Shirley Hazzard & Donald Keene.
Herod gets a pass
by Paul Devlin
On The Life of Herod the Great, by Zora Neale Hurston.
Rhetorical figures
by Paul Dean
On Shakespeare’s Tragic Art, by Rhodri Lewis.
Scratched pads
by Amit Majmudar
On The Notebook: A History of Writing on Paper, by Roland Allen.
A different drum
by Allen C. Guelzo
On Instrument of War: Music and the Making of America’s Soldiers, by David Suisman.