In today’s Wall Street Journal I review Elyssa East’s Dogtown: Death and Enchantment in a New England Ghost Town: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703939404574566772944605580.html. Among her subjects is the New England painter Marsden Hartley, who after years of expatriation in Europe and New York…
December 2009
From today’s edition of Inside Higher Education:
In remarks kicking off a White House forum on job creation and the economy, President Obama repeatedly stressed the role of higher education. “I want to hear about what unions and universities can…
Washington, Connecticut. …At the end of his introduction to a re-publication of the Marquis de Custine’s “Empire of the Czar, A Journey Through Eternal Russia,” George F. Kennan recalls a quote from his friend Isaiah Berlin. Kennan relies on Berlin’s
