Reviews and News:
Paul Griffiths under investigation at Duke for asking unacceptable questions.
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Endowment that supports the Philadelphia Inquirer set to exceed $100 million: “The Lenfest Institute for Journalism, launched in January 2016 with an endowment of $20 million from philanthropist Gerry Lenfest, announced today it has raised $26.5 million in additional gifts from a variety of sources. Impressed by the response, Lenfest says he’s ponying up another $40 million, an amount that will have to be matched. ‘It’s a great day for local journalism, but it also symbolizes how much work we have to do,’ says Jim Friedlich, the institute’s executive director and CEO. ‘For the moment, at least, I’m pleased as punch by all of this.’
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In praise of useless history.
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In Case You Missed It:
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Prince Philip’s early life.
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We need to recover a right understanding of tragedy, argues Robert Kaplan: Tragedy “is the beauty of intolerable truths.” It “is not the triumph of evil over good but the suffering caused by the triumph of one good over another.”
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In The New Criterion, Gary Saul Morson revisits the publication and influence of Boris Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago.
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Interview: John J. Miller talks to Alvin S. Felzenberg about William F. Buckley Jr. as political advisor
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Classic Essay: Jacob Riis, “The Genesis of the Gang”
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