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On Taste

2024 Year in Review

Antony and Antony

Ancient footsteps, like the motion of the sea

Mr Death

On Free Verse, with Applications to Walt Whitman

"The motive for repeal was prudence not principle"

The Coming of the Reign of Terror, Part 2

Repeal of the Stamp Act; The Declaratory Act.

The Coming of the Reign of Terror

Moral Kiosk

Poetica Philosophica

On “fear of religion”

“I’m charged with giving birth to sedition in America”

Holy Sonnet XIV

Declarations and Petitions of The Continental Congress

Notes on Caravaggio

The Martin Howard Saga

On Expertise

You might need time to think about all this

“An atmosphere of artistic theory”

"I am but governor in name"

Flannery O’Connor for Atheists

Resolves Against the Stamp Act

Aesthetic Vocabulary Test

The Stamp Act

Winged Victory on Foot

The Administration of the Colonies

Let Those Flatter Who Fear: American Independence in Verse

Kindly Inquisitors, a Gentle Interrogation

Prologue: Join, or Die

Poetry as Low-Grade Musical Material

Social Experiments, with Joan Didion

Aristeia

Against Flying Drapery

American Cancel Culture, 1769

I Was Compliant

The Girls Who Went Away: Poems

On Gothic Architecture

King Lear as Tragedy

Some Free Thinking About Time

How we get along (1)

Confessions of a Completist

An Oration Commemorating the Boston Massacre

On Status and Inequality

Donald Justice on “Meters and Memory”

Short Notes on Winston Churchill

“In Moby-Dick, he swallows Shakespeare…”

He Stared At Me Like No One Ever Had

Adult Encounters with Children's Stories

"Freaky poetical crypto-zoological musings"

On What There Is

Kenner on Modernism

Against Feet

Benjamin Franklin Examined at the House of Commons

Music Alone, Music Together, When the Music Does the Talking

You Should Look For Her

Holmes Changes his Mind

Naive Sprung Rhythm

On Hamlet

Romanticism, II: Art and Politics.

History Lessons

Romanticism, I: Revaluation of Values

Side Note: The Documentary Fallacy Fallacy

On Balance

On Toleration

Sugar-Coated Pills

Free Indirect Style in The Red Badge of Courage

Evolution and the Dynamics of Technological Change

Alien Metaphysics

Covers and Remakes

What is music for?

Custom, habit, and social change: Michael Oakeshott’s conservatism

Against God

Barendt on Mill on Freedom of Speech