The Arts

Law and Liberty , May 31, 2024 (Review of The Holdovers )   It’s a well-known fact that historians generally don’t like historical...

The New Criterion , October 2020   (On the aesthetics and history of the Freedman’s Memorial in Washington, D.C.)   Abraham Lincoln had...

The Wall Street Journal , June 29, 2020   (On the Freedman’s Memorial in Washington, D.C.)   At the end of the Civil War, on April 11,...

The New Criterion , June 2020   Poor Raphael! This year, the five-hundredth anniversary of his death, was to have been his year of glory....

The Wall Street Journal , April 10, 2020   (On Raphael’s “Transfiguration”)   Late in 1519, the great Renaissance artist Raphael faced a...

The Spectator (World) , February 26, 2020 At the time of his death on Good Friday, 1520, Raffaello Sanzio of Urbino was the most...