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At New York City Ballet next week: Mimi Paul coaches Emeralds. Patricia McBride and Edward Villella coach Rubies.

A friend writes in: “A dear friend, I was told, listened obsessively to a recording of Listzomania before his suicide. During the interwar years in Europe, playing Das Lied vom traurigen Sonntag, the Hungarian ‘Szomorú Vasárnap’ recorded by the Rezs? … Continue reading →

Kavanaugh’s appointment is being driven by criminal conspiracy, and if the White House manages to install Kavanaugh on the Siupreme Court, the court’s legitimacy must be declared vacated.

the Supreme Court conclusively loses its legitimacy, and frankly, should be kept at arm’s length. When great American institutions are defaced to this degree, it’s time to reform them in the long term, but time to isolate them in the … Continue reading →

From the Preface to Gwen Raverat’s Period Piece: A Victorian Childhood: “This is a circular book. It does not begin at the beginning and go on to the end; it is all going on at the same time, sticking out … Continue reading →

Two years after the fact, Sen. Schatz said that the Democrats should have shut down the Senate when McConnell mugged the Constitution and torpedoed Merrick Garland’s Supreme Court nomination. Why are the Dems not planning to do the same thing … Continue reading →

The President’s go-strategy is projection; we are correct to assume that every accusation he makes against anyone betrays his own intentions and behavior.

Moustafa Bayoumi asks in the Guardian why this goes under the radar: “The circus show that is the Trump administration has, like a fireball in an air shaft, swallowed all the oxygen in the room. The administration’s endless scandals give … Continue reading →

In every possible way:  totalitarian Kavanaugh will let Trump establish himself as above the law and lead to a further erosion of equal protections of every kind. It will, Miles Mogulesco writes at Campaign for America’s Future, “delegitimize the Supreme … Continue reading →

Outright defense of treason by Dershowitz. To George Stephanopoulos: “Look, it would be good for the American public if President Trump sat down and said everything he knows, but it wouldn’t be good for President Trump.” And Dershowitz, of course, … Continue reading →