In preparation for a project, I've been going through my @authory portfolio to select highlights. It's a work in progress but, for those interested, here a rough compilation:

The controversy over the removal of text at Philadelphia's President’s House (@independencenhp) to satisfy the Trump administration, is chronicled in today’s @nyt. We are supposed to mourn the result. But I reviewed this House’s opening in 2010, https://t.co/dNayNlM0ut and

Midsummer: In memory of Tina Packer, who died earlier this month, and provided years of pleasure and thought - stimulants that continue through the company she founded in Lenox, MA @shakeandco. Here is the third of three essays I wrote @nyt, contemplating her productions, this

In memory of Tina Packer, who died earlier this month, and provided years of pleasure and thought - stimulants that continue through the company she founded in Lenox, MA @shakeandco. Here is the second of three essays I wrote @nyt, contemplating her productions, this one on

In memory of Tina Packer, who died earlier this month, and provided years of pleasure and thought – stimulants that continue through the company she founded in Lenox, MA @shakeandco. Here is the first of three essays I wrote @nyt, contemplating her productions, this one on

On Miami Beach and World’s Fairs, the Crystal Palace and the Eiffel Tower, “late capitalism” and the Ferris Wheel, fairs and museums (“Fairs emphasized the typical, not the singular; the popular, not the elite; the commercial, not the reverential. Museums’ emphases were on the

I am putting a nearly complete archive of my published work online as an @Authory portfolio. This includes my essays on music in @newrepublic in the 1980s. I will gradually be adding my reviews and essays in @nyt as well. Essays will also be grouped by publication:

For no reason whatsoever - the holiday season? a year that itself seemed a hangover? - here is my 2007 @nyt column hailing the return of absinthe, the drink of bohemian modernism. Van Gogh threw a glass at Gaugin. Munch chugged it, Wilde acidly assessed it: "“After the first

A reminder of the important questions raised by Norman #Podhoretz that shaped neo-conservativism - and their anticipation in the opposing views of Camus and Sartre: my 2004 @nyt column:

"Norman Podhoretz is not one of my ex-friends," I wrote in 1999 in https://t.co/7wmE9ZCfz1 . He never became one. But he was, in a small way, the opposite. He will be missed.

A stunning array of 139 menorahs spanning two millennia and four continenets @TheJewishMuseum ....but I also raise questions: https://t.co/cZoTXJ3EhP

On @TheJewishMuseum and the tensions of Hanukkah, the Jews of India and the Jews of the avant-garde, the non-centrality of “tikkun olam” and the centrality of asserting it, cultural interactions and the strange absence of Zionism, the global Diaspora and the “Jewish social

It should be an interesting evening, discussing Mamdani and the Jews with my friend/colleague David Firestone and fellow journalist Alyssa Katz: https://t.co/OXy2FwExjz

Wonderful news for @CBSNews, which will be strengthened and perhaps even reformed by the presence and generosity and spirited intelligence of @bariweiss. I paid her tribute and worried over the trajectory of @nytimes in 2020 for @DIEZEIT :

On wokeness and the Smithsonian, Smithson and his gift, Identity Museums and embedded activism: I review “Smthson’s Gamble” @wsjbooks

On wokeness and the Smithsonian, Smithson and his gift, Identity Museums and embedded activism: I review “Smthson’s Gamble” @wsjbooks

On Persian observatories and Christian constellations, Islamic astronomy and Western science, Jewish cosmology and stellar cosmologists. I review a fascinating exhibition, "Mapping the Heavens" @nelson_atkins @WSJopinion :