Terry Teachout (1956-2022)
Sorry to learn of Terry’s passing. See Commentary Magazine — NPR — The American Spectator cultural criticismJazzLouis ArmstrongTerry Teachout
Tag Archive Browsing Tag: cultural criticism
Browse by:
Who the Fuck is Frank Zappa?
Born on this day — the radical individualist that was FZ. Look out for the forthcoming Who the Fuck is Frank Zappa? movie and also The Bizarre World Of Frank Zappa hologram tour. Also well-worth a read is Barry Miles’ excellent biography reviewed by the redoubtable Camille Paglia in the NYT. Barry MilesCamille PagliaConservatismcultural criticismFrank Zappafree speechLibertarianismmusic
George Santayana
Born on this day: here are his SEP and IEP entries. Oddly enough neither lists Noël O’Sullivan’s nice little book, an overview by Max Teichmann here. “Catholic freethinker” was the playful label Bertrand Russell affixed to George Santayana, and a back-handed tribute to the readiness of the Spanish-American to examine, respectfully, many other systems of thought…
Review of The Sum of Small Things: A Theory of the Aspirational Class
Benjamin Schwarz is perhaps in a class of his own in that his reviews are marvelously entertaining while remaining on point substantively. The danger for books reviewed by him — good, bad, or indifferent — is that his secondary commentary typically outshines the target work. Anyway, the discussion centres on what Jonathan Haidt has termed…
In the Name of the People: Pseudo-Democracy and the Spoiling of our World
Here is my chum Ivo Mosley’s latest book. In addition to his writing career (poetry, plays, social commentary) Ivo was a highly distinguished ceramicist – see the wonderful photo of him and his work below captured by either Snowdon or Lichfield – I forget. Ivo, surprisingly, also read Japanese at Oxford. cultural criticismhistory of political thoughtivo…
manwithoutqualities 