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Gordon S. Wood
There must be dozens of books on the Declaration of Independence written from every conceivable point of view—historical, political, theoretical, philosophical, and textual—but no one has ever written one quite like Danielle Allen’s new book.
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Daniel Mendelsohn
A theme in John Williams’s work is the way that our sense of who we are can be irrevocably altered by circumstance and accident. The surprise of Augustus is that its famous protagonist turns out to be no different in the end from the author’s other disappointed heroes.
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Arnold Relman
Without leadership by physicians, it is unlikely that we will see any major change in the system for payment and organization of medical care within the next decade or two. And without such change, the future of the American health system is bleak.
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Film, art, theater, music, and more
Hindu-Buddhist sculpture of early Southeast Asia, Wallace Shawn in A Master Builder, the Italian Futurists, the Nazis and degenerate art, the complete Fritz Lang, Brontë juvenilia, Louis Armstrong’s private side, Latin American art today.
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Richard Bernstein
There are some 200,000 motorcycle taxi drivers in Bangkok, a politically engaged population spread across the heart of the capital, on every street corner. They have challenged the power of unelected governments again and again, and they aren’t going away.
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Vladimir Sorokin
In front of an overheated television set, Russia conceived. A new life stirred in her enormous womb: Free Ukraine. The authorities were horrified, the liberals were jealous, and the nationalists were filled with hatred. No one had anticipated such a rapid development of events.
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