Reviews and News:
When Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band came out, Richard Goldstein panned it in The New York Times—”Busy, hip and cluttered,” “a surprising shoddiness in composition,” “fraudulent.” He doesn’t regret it.
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Do numbers “make” us? Caleb Everett thinks so. John McWhorter’s not so sure.
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New book apps.
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In Case You Missed It:
Images of the earliest known draft of the King James Bible.
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In The New Yorker, Charlotte Higgens writes about paleographer Roger Tomlin’s reading of everyday Roman objects.
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A compelling history of the English Reformation.
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The Stradivarius myth.
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Interview: Ben Domenech talks with Yuval Levin about how conservatives have become detached from contemporary problems.
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Classic Essay: T.E. Hulme, “A Note on the Art of Political Conversion”
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