Saturday, August 31, 2019

Culture Watch: 7 Provocative Articles

* "Now Renoir Is Problematic" (Kyle Smith, National Review)

* "Ode to the poem: why memorising poetry still matters" (Veronica Alfano, Mercator)

* "Dostoevsky’s 'Russian God': Russian Attitude Toward Faith and Christianity" (George Barros, Providence)

* "Identity Politics Runs Much Deeper than Politics: (National Review interviews Mary Eberstadt about her new book Primal Screams: How the Sexual Revolution Created Identity Politics.)

* "Americans Have Almost Entirely Forgotten Their History" (Jarrett Stepman, Daily Signal)

* "Why America Needs Classical Architecture" (Catesby Leigh, City Journal)

* "Hannah Arendt: thinking pariah: Arendt has been unjustly transformed into a partisan for today's liberal causes" (Nathan Pinkoski, Mercator)