The limits of civic education
Plus: Picasso’s chaotic years, the birth of the foreign correspondent and more
Micah Mattix
Micah Mattix is a senior editor of The Spectator’s World edition and the author of the Prufrock newsletter. He has written for the Wall Street Journal, the New Criterion, the Atlantic and many other publications.
Tuesday
Monday
Against Hope
Hope: A Literary History by Adam Potkay reviewed
Saturday
Nancy Pelosi reads Bono
Plus: C.S. Lewis’s medieval mind, the fall of Robespierre and more
Thursday
The identity cult
Plus: the great book of the Great War, T.S. Eliot’s letters and more
Tuesday
Jack Kerouac at 100
Plus: a succession fight at Scholastic, a walk through ancient Rome and more
Monday
Against ‘moral clarity’
Plus: the life and work of Meir Kahane, the end of second-run theaters and more
Sunday
On receiving books in the mail
E-commerce is great for readers, but there’s no wrong way to buy books
Thursday
Shackleton’s ‘Endurance’ found
Plus: medieval manuscripts, Stephen Hawking’s libido and more
Tuesday
What’s wrong with higher ed — and how to fix it
Plus: the Habsburg empress in her time, Adolph Reed on Jim Crow and more
Sunday
How Arvo Pärt can help us through Lent
The innovative modern composer does not abandon hierarchy, but acknowledges its inescapability
Thursday
Accessible art
Plus: a defense of blurbs, teaching kids to read and more
Wednesday
The kids are not alright
Plus: typing Mrs. Dalloway, the Jewish revolt against Rome and more
Sunday
Pop music isn’t getting better — and that’s okay
It’s for dancing and working out, not making some great artistic statement
Saturday
Saving the racist ‘Music Man’
Plus: a history of the bald eagle, Eros as monster, and more
Thursday
The Recording Academy riles classical musicians
Plus Heidegger’s gift, ‘Death on the Nile’ reviewed, and more
Tuesday
Fiasco at Imperial College
Plus the beginning of secularism, propaganda and art and more
Monday
Imagining Rimbaud
The more one knows about Rimbaud and literary criticism, the more one will enjoy the book’s subtler jibes
Saturday
Killing with music and rhyme
Plus misreading Darwin, the summer of theory and more
Thursday
Remembering P.J. O’Rourke
Plus fur trade marriages, gamer Elon Musk and more
Tuesday
The decline of the Met
Plus, the history of ‘Blood Meridian,’ when artists competed for Olympic gold and more
