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A Dutch master rediscovered
IN his classic essay "Of the Standard of Taste," David Hume asked how we could tell whether a given work was a masterpiece. "Durable admiration"...
National Review, 05/04/09 by Roger Kimball · More from publication -
Why millions won't be voting for Barack today
ONE of the things that most amazes people about Barack Hussein Obama is the suddenness of his rise. Barack who? A year ago, most people...
Evening Standard; London (UK), 11/04/08 by ROGER KIMBALL · More from publication -
Rudyard Kipling unburdened
New Criterion, 04/01/08 by Roger Kimball · More from publication
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Stylist
WHAT made Bill Buckley such an effective writer? Let's pass over such pedestrian contingencies as truthful statements expressed in elegant English....
National Review, 03/24/08 by Roger Kimball · More from publication -
Shock seekers
Modernism: The Lure of Heresy: From Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond, by Peter Gay (Norton, 640 pp., $35) Modernism: The Lure of Heresy: From...
National Review, 03/10/08 by Roger Kimball · More from publication -
A knave and his index: Lewis Lapham continues to wound our culture
WHAT was Karl Marx's best line? My candidate is his mot, from the Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (1852), about history repeating itself...
National Review, 02/11/08 by Roger Kimball · More from publication -
Introduction: saving remnants
New Criterion, 01/01/08 by Roger Kimball · More from publication
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A neglected master
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] George Inness: A Catalogue Raisonne, by Michael Quick (Rutgers, 2 vols., 1,274 pp., $400 the...
National Review, 12/03/07 by Roger Kimball · More from publication -
Pleasures of the iconic
'ICONIC" seems to be the season's word of choice for the paintings of Edward Hopper (1882-1967). 'ICONIC" seems to be the season's word of choice...
National Review, 11/05/07 by Roger Kimball · More from publication -
"Openness" & "The Closing of the American Mind"
New Criterion, 11/01/07 by Roger Kimball · More from publication
