Summer ‘23 Arts & Culture Collection

• HowNot To Cancel Russia- Elizabeth Gilbert’s decision to pull her book is a misguided way of grappling with the ethical implications of war. (Persuasion, 6/28/23); Out of Fashion- Elizabeth Gilbert’s self-censorship of her novel set in Russia has laid bare our national culture of virtue-bullying. (City Journal, 6/30/23)

• The Conquest of Art- Ideology increasingly prevails. (City Journal, 6/28/23)

• We’re All Bored of Culture - Anglo-Calvinist moralism has turned the American arts into something strenuously polite and deadly dull. (Tablet, 5/15/23); Also see — Is Art Boring Or Is It Just Us? William Deresiewicz Returns To The Pod (The Unspeakable Podcast: 6/12/23)

• Ewelldämmerung- Music theory’s woke emperor has no clothes (City Journal, 5/2/23)