The reason I was at the Wyndham, I was attending the Andover commencement (my wife’s niece). There was something thrilling about it, something else crushing.
The thrilling thing is that diversity is today a bold insurmountable fact of elite culture. The graduating class was filled with Africans, blacks, Asians, you name it. Oh Read More
The most striking photograph included in All the Mighty World: The Photographs of Roger Fenton, 1852-1860, an exhibition on display in the Robert Lehman Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is neither the best thing in the British photographer’s oeuvre nor the most beautiful. Captain Lord Balgonie, Grenadier Guards (1855) is among a number Read More
Three years ago, Belgian food
suddenly swung into fashion. Restaurants sprung up in smart downtown
neighborhoods, introducing trendy audiences to moules marinière, French fries
dipped in mayonnaise and obscure beers brewed by Trappist monks. But it wasn’t
long before their customers moved on to the next big thing, and Belgian
restaurants met their … Waterloo. Read More
Three years ago, Belgian food suddenly swung into fashion. Restaurants sprung up in smart downtown neighborhoods, introducing trendy audiences to moules marinière, French fries dipped in mayonnaise and obscure beers brewed by Trappist monks. But it wasn’t long before their customers moved on to the next big thing, and Belgian restaurants met their … Waterloo. Read More
