All Writings and Appearances

The New Criterion, December 2017 Fame often does an artist little good. Quite apart from the moral temptations, there is the danger of...

de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture, University of Notre Dame, November 11, 2017 In his keynote address at the 18th Annual Fall...

Claremont Review of Books, Fall, 2017 Carlos Eire, America’s leading historian of the Reformation, which marked its 500th anniversary in...

The New Criterion, July 27, 2017 From his death in 1520 to the early nineteenth century, Raphael was widely regarded as the greatest...

American Affairs , Summer 2017   Meritocracy has become a theme of great interest in contemporary politics, both in Western and Eastern...

The New Criterion, June 2017 In his memoir Unforgotten Years (1938), the expatriate writer and aesthete Logan Pearsall Smith relates with...