Pianist, conductor, composer, and musicologist Robert Levin on Joseph Haydn's Symphony No. 94. Mariss Jansons conducts the Berlin Philh...

This essay is a sequel of sorts to Primitive Romance . There could scarcely be two words which enjoy more esteem than art and culture . ...

Last year in celebration of Thanksgiving I indulged in compiling list. I say indulged because I included no explanation or explication, un...

In a wonderful pre-concert lecture Thomas Crawford, Music Director and Founder of the American Classical Orchestra discusses the music and ...

One of the most common criticisms of the left by the right is that the left is collectivist whereas the right is individualist. One of the m...

This essay is a sort of sibling to my previous one, Caution: Intellectual's At Work . Philosophy in Plato's Apology certainly see...

I haven't read Thomas Sowell's Intellectuals and Society [1] but ever so often I read something and share more in his skepticism of...

Sir John Eliot Gardiner thinks there is something French about Beethoven's 5th Symphony. Did Beethoven use French tunes written during ...

For Saturday, September 25 through Friday, November 12. 1) T. S. Eliot and the Demise of Literary Culture 2) Where Time and the Timeless...

In his 1960 book The Constitution of Liberty Friedrich Hayek wrote a short essay titled Why I Am Not a Conservative [1] in which he differ...