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The discoveries of the Greeks and Romans introduced the long Western tradition of rationalism and empiricism.
@VDHanson traces the intellectual legacy of ancient Greece and Rome.
Read on in the September issue of The New Criterion:
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Our critics pick: “Dudamel Conducts Mahler & Tania León,” at the New York Philharmonic (September 24–29). @nyphil
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Our critics pick: “Architectural Revolution on the Ottoman Frontier: Greece and Albania in the Age of Ali Pasha,” by Emily Neumeier (Penn State University Press). @neumeiem
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Our critics pick: “Aperture Loves New York,” at Aperture (through November 1). @JamesPanero @aperturefnd
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Our critics pick: “The Storytellers: Reading the Masterpieces of Nineteenth-Century Short Fiction,” by Michael Gorra (University of Chicago Press). @UChicagoPress
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“Megaliths are the book’s home territory, but he strays into barrows, tumuli, caves, and other prehistoric earthworks.”
Read “If these stones could talk,” by Conor McKee.
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“While the peasants generally refrained from atrocities, they certainly had an appetite for destruction.”
Read “Heroes & villains,” by Sean McGlynn.
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“Casement benefited eventually from the shifting Irish attitude toward the rising.”
Read “Casement’s ghost,” by John P. Rossi.
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“Broadly, Goldsworthy follows a Thucydidean trajectory.”
Read “Greek havoc,” by Paul Cartledge.
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“The humiliation to Cambridge University—my university—is not so easily erased.”
Read “An honorable death,” by James Bowman.
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“There was a sense of ceremony, and that sense was almost religious.”
Read “Salzburg chronicle,” by Jay Nordlinger. @jaynordlinger
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“He drew, then etched, then inked, then printed.”
Read “Exhibition note,” by Franklin Einspruch.
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“It ultimately may be to our benefit that the sun has shone its light on this tendentious exhibition.”
Read “America inside out,” by James Panero. @JamesPanero
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“Kuijer made gravity a collaborator in assembling his works.”
Read “Kuijer’s components,” by Karen Wilkin.
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“A ‘multi-faith bake sale’ features two types of goodies: Methodist and Presbyterian.”
Read “Millennial angst,” by Kyle Smith. @rkylesmith
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“The range of contexts in which ‘word salad’ is used—clinical, literary, fuzzy, academic, and political—is not in itself remarkable.”
Read “Nonsense with a side of greens,” by Joshua T. Katz.
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Today in class, I was discussing with students whether “to whom they are married” is too pedantic to say, or just pedantic enough.
My new essay in the @newcriterion, about Caesar’s and Cicero’s debates over grammar at the end of the Roman republic, argues that these sorts of picky grammar questions are of civilizational consequence.
Read below ⬇️ on why the choice of words mattered to the maker of worlds, and why it should matter to us.
“Ever fewer young Ph.D.s are proud of their field and of their achievement within it.”
Read “The English gauntlet,” by Mark Bauerlein.
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Yesterday, the Friends of The New Criterion received a private tour of “Musical Bodies,” the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new exhibition of
instruments, paintings, printed materials, and artifacts.
Thank you to all who joined us!
“Homer’s hero is thus reduced to a sort of retread of the titular character of Nolan’s previous film, ‘Oppenheimer.’”
Read “A post-Western ‘Odyssey,’” by Victor Davis Hanson. @VDHanson
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