Culture
Art, food, fashion, and the way we live now.
- Heirs to Sheeler Nord Wennerstrom 12/11/2006
- Who are the best industrial artists today? We make the introductions.
- American Dreamer James Bowman 12/08/2006
- Theodore Dreiser’s novel, ‘An American Tragedy,’ was based on a real-life murder 100 years ago. Its pernicious plotline continues to resonate. An anti-hero flails helplessly in the grip of a force he is powerless to control—America itself, with its promises of wealth, luring innocents to destruction.
- The Ties that Bind Evan Sparks 11/27/2006
- Neckties are worthwhile precisely because they are superfluous.
- OJ Nearly Makes a Killing James Lileks 11/24/2006
- Fox backs away, and not a moment too soon
- Remembering Robert Altman Shaun K. Chang 11/22/2006
- The late director had an unusual gift, maintaining artistic independence inside the studio system.
- The Young Economist Lizbeth Scordo 11/17/2006
- Economics often presumes that people act rationally. Ulrike Malmendier knows better.
- The Greatest Gift Amity Shlaes 11/17/2006
- Andrew Mellon gave America its finest art museum, the National Gallery.
- Patriots vs. Redskins Kevin Hassett 11/17/2006
- Who has it right, and who has it wrong? KEVIN HASSETT on the economics of managing an NFL football team.
- The Devil Wears Kiton Michael Ledeen 10/14/2006
- Decadent Naples has become the center of haute men’s fashion.