Once, at a gallery show I was visiting, the artist pointed to a painting of two gun-toting soldiers and told me it was the one piece that hadn’t yet sold. “Nobody wants pictures of guns hanging up in ...
Jay begins with the song for which the podcast is named: “Music for a While,” by Purcell. He ends with some theme music by the late Quincy Jones, “The Streetbeater.” In between are Mendelssohn, Liszt, ...
Watch Douglas Murray deliver the Sixth Annual Circle Lecture, “The profundity of evil.” A version of the remarks appear in the November 2024 issue of The New Criterion.