Solitude and Leadership (2010)

35 Over 35

Orwell’s Last Neighborhood

Our Fate Is in the Stars

How did classical music in movies and television become synonymous with villainy

The Devil's Party: On Milton's Lucifer

When conductor and soloist clash, a performance can turn into a contest of wills

Solitude and Leadership (2010)

Idle Hands Are the Dreamer's Tools

Organ Grinding: When the Audience Revolted at Carnegie Hall

Tuskegee Truth Teller

When Beethoven Met Goethe

It’s Complicated: Unraveling the mystery of why people act as they do

Reading Thoreau at 200

Writing English as a Second Language (2009)

On Political Correctness

The New Old Way of Learning Languages (2008)

The Disadvantages of an Elite Education

The Lightness of Errol Flynn: In praise of the irresistible swashbuckler

The Hidden Music of Words

Selling My Papers

The Sound of Silence: Jean Sibelius and the symphony that never was

Journeying to the Andaman Islands to meet Earth's most isolated tribe (2000)

Nabokov in Utah

A New Theory of the Universe (2007)

What F. Scott Fitzgerald’s tax returns reveal about his life and times (2009)

Solitude and Leadership (2010)

My Mother's Yiddish

Instant Gratification (2014)

Solitude and Leadership (2010)

More →