Category: Arts and Letters
The War for the Soul of the City
In an age when glass-and-steel monoliths rise like tombstones over the graves of once-human cities, the classical idiom has come…
The Dustbin of Relevance
Sometimes, after reading that hash of mendacity and advocacy called the news, spattered with the opinions of people who cannot…
A Bag of Rocks for $400,000?
On a social media site the other day, someone posted a single sentence to the effect that he’d tried once…
The Great Gatsby at 100
Arguably the greatest MMA fighter of all time, Dagestani Khabib Nurmagomedov defined his strategy in the octagon: “I take people…
While Humans Were Tuning Their Guitars — AI Created America’s No. 1 Country Song
It’s another milestone in the onward march of the bots — country music’s top song in the U.S. last week…
A Dome for Man
I have just finished re-reading Irving Stone’s historical novel, The Agony and the Ecstasy, on the life and times of…
The White House East Wing Renovations: Exorcizing the Daemons of Modernism
In the elder days of Art, Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part; For the Gods see…
