An old friend who has spent his adult life politically engage’, as the french say, recently admitted he can barely stand to watch or read the news anymore. It is not that he’s uninterested in our evolving fate; it’s that … Continue reading
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Americans when they first visit Europe are immediately struck by the fact that our oldest cities, buildings, works of art, traditions and institutions are teen-agers alongside their venerable counterparts abroad. And especially by what Lawrence Durrell called Caesar’s vast ghost. … Continue reading