“Cultural instructions.” Everyone who has handled a package of seedlings has encountered that enigmatic advisory. This much water and that much sun, certain tips about fertilizer, soil, and drainage.
Colleges and universities used to teach art history to encourage connoisseurship and acquaint students with the riches of our artistic heritage. But now, as Roger Kimball reveals in this book, the st
Drawing on figures as various as Plutarch, Hegel, Kierkegaard, P.G. Wodehouse, Descartes, Trollope, Wittgenstein, and Bertrand Russell, cultural and literary critic Roger Kimball explores the many app
