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Art, books, music, theatre and criticism from Standpoint. Criticism as argument, not consumer advice.
Bohemian rhapsodies

Bohemian rhapsodies

Caroline Maclean’s Circles and Squares reads like a roll-call of the artistic great and good of the interwar years — whose enterprise stands in stark relation to the mess of their private lives
May 22, 2020
Beat that

Beat that

"Half a century since their break-up, the Fab Four grimly reaped to the tiresome two, the Beatles go on. Documentaries and dramas continue to be made, interviews are bigged-up, and last year,
March 25, 2020
A harness for history

A harness for history

Thomas Piketty is haunted by the failures of social democracy, but his own ideas for fixing society are far from novel
February 26, 2020
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