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The Future of Opera at the Kennedy Center
by Joshua T. KatzAmerican Enterprise Institute For New Yorkers, one hard thing about moving to Washington, D.C. is that there aren’t world-class concerts every day. Both the nation’s capital and what is sometimes called…
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The Widening of the American Mind
by Thomas L. Krannawitter The bell rings. Students settle into their seats with the practiced choreography of the modern classroom: a laptop flips open; a phone disappears—mostly—into a hoodie pocket; someone asks whether the…
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Liberalism: The Cause of, and Solution to All of Life’s Problems
by Lance Abbott People have been railing against and misrepresenting liberalism almost since its inception. And yet, despite centuries of criticism and countless illiberal attempts to undermine or redefine it, liberalism has produced more…
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Iran, Venezuela, and the State of the Media
Polyhymnia COO joins Max Borders on Underthrow to discuss international things, including recent events in Iran and Venezuela. There’s no way of knowing where any of this is going to end up, but things…
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College Work
Who decides should be obvious. Andrew Jason Cohen I recently heard Jill Lepore, professor of history at Harvard University, on The Good Fight podcast. In discussing campus culture, she expressed dismay at the fact…
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We Must, and Can, Cool Political Rhetoric
Richard Lorenc writes in the Boston Herald: “Although political conflict is inevitable, we each have the power to steer disagreements away from name-calling and rhetorical head-butting. If we want the activists and politicians to…
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Art and the Meaning of Life
Robert Edward Gordon In one way or another, the issue of finding meaning in life lies in the innumerable choices we make everyday. Shakespeare’s existential “To be, or not to be” soliloquy from Hamlet…
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Meet Blake Scott Ball
Blake Scott Ball has done us the honor of becoming a fellow at Polyhymnia. You can get to know him a little bit here. As it turns out, he is a pretty interesting and…
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Considering Mr. Scorcese
Apple TV+ subscribers now have the opportunity to peer into the complex mind of filmmaker Martin Scorcese in a five-part docuseries. And readers now have the opportunity to see what Rebecca Miller learned as…
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