Around the Web

For the week of Saturday, July 17 through Friday, July 23.

1) In City Journal, Heather MacDonald and "Classical Music's New Golden Age."

2) William Schambra in National Affairs on "Conservatism and the Quest for Community."

3) Henry Olsen in National Affairs on "Populism, American Style."

4) Victor Davis Hanson and pitying the postmodern cultural elite.

Book Reviews

5) Ernest Gellner: An Intellectual Biography, by John A. Hall

6) Duel at Dawn, by Amir Alexander

7) The Wave Watcher's Companion, by Gavin Pretor-Pinney 

8) The Wind from the East, by Richard Wolin

9) Spartacus Road, by Peter Stothard

10) The Art of the Sonnet, by Stephen Burt and David Mikics

11) Music and Sentiment, by Charles Rosen

12) Remembering tenor Anthony Rolfe Johnson, elegant interpreter of Britten, Mozart, and Fauré.