Joshua Nichols 
Liza Libes argues that Columbia’s English department has replaced literature with ideology, turning great books into tools for political critique. From Orientation Week onward, she found theory and identity politics overshadowing beauty, humanism, and the transformative power of literature.
At a moment when American public life often oscillates between exhaustion and abstraction, serious cultural reflection has become increasingly rare. It is therefore worth drawing attention to the work being undertaken through the Omni-American Review by our senior fellow Aryeh Tepper, who serves as the journal’s editor-in-chief.
The problem with the LAO guide is that it destroys meritocracy in the orchestral repertoire, and places a heavy burden on artistic organizations to choose diversity over compositional merit.
A safe space for the beautiful.
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