Borges’s Mirror

How the Great Truth Dawned

Gentleman Officer

The greatest of all novels

Pelagic Thoroughbreds

How to read Kafka: part I

Thirtieth anniversary of the publication of Vasily Grossman’s “Life and Fate”

The Waugh effort

A New Biography of Benjamin Franklin's Early Life

Giacometti Renewed

Marvelous Muriel

The Opium of the Intellectuals (2005)

The future of classicism

The second-worst poet in English

“The Idiot” Savant: On Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Idiot

Among the ufologists

Puttin' on the Style: On writing, and on English style

Global Latinists

Is Civilization Overrated?

Rossini’s sins

The Vatican's Latinist

Art in Conversation: On museums as havens for culture

Dialogues in Scrutopia

The function of criticism: On T.S. Eliot’s essay on the evaluation of literature

The Vatican’s Latinist

Latin Lover

Less can be more: On the merits of simple museum displays

A life in ruins: On the architectural vision of John Soane

Fetters and freedom: on Thomas Merton’s vision of transcendence through faith

The master propagandist: On Jacques Louis-David’s moral foibles

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