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Hedge fund founder Marc Lasry evaluates the government’s handling of the Chrysler bankruptcy and compares this financial crisis to previous ones.
"The Most Failed State," a piece in The New Yorker's December 14 issue, scrutinizes Somalia and offers glimpses of the mix of nose-holding and open-mindedness U.S. leaders will need in […]
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The fate of the newspaper critic is closely tied to the fate of print media. Can either survive?
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Everyone knows the staples of the Broadway repertoire; they get recycled every decade or so. Which masterpieces are we overlooking?
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Music and drama critic Terry Teachout recently wrote his first libretto; the opera became a hit. What would he advise others attempting this daunting form?
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Critic Terry Teachout describes the unrestrained, abstract magic of his favorite Louis Armstrong recording.
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Jazz is still exciting, says critic Terry Teachout, but its inability to connect with young audiences is "anxiety-making" for lovers of the art.
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How should actors strive to play Shakespeare? What should audiences watch for when they attend a production? The drama critic shares his views.
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"Pops" author Terry Teachout runs through his personal checklist of what makes a biography worth writing (hint: it’s the inner life that counts).
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As the first biographer to hear Louis Armstrong’s private tape recordings, the author of "Pops" discovered a side of the jazz genius the public never suspected.
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Critic Terry Teachout reveals the drama and music that moved him the most as a young man, and which is the more personal art form for him.
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Wall Street Journal critic Terry Teachout doesn’t worry that blogs will kill professional criticism. But through his own blog ("About Last Night"), he’s learned how much they can help the […]
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A conversation with the Wall Street Journal drama critic and author of "Pops."
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As the Duke historian explains, soccer, first brought to Algeria by their French colonizers, later became a symbol for Algerian nationalism.
Two degrees Celsius, it seems, is all that separates the United States from the rest of the world. This morning, 56 newspapers from around the world will print the same editorial calling […]
David Mamet’s new play “Race” which opened on Broadway last night is about two lawyers defending a rich white man against charges of raping his black girlfriend.
The White House gate-crashers are just the latest in a long line of security breaches which include admitting a family in a minivan and a delivery driver to the presidential home.
Fifty people have been detained after martial law was imposed in a southern Philippines province where 57 people were killed in a massacre two weeks ago.
A writer for The Salon ponders the intellectual stimulus of being a stay-at-home-father and asks “Is my kids making me not smart?”
A man from Houston who claimed to have thwarted a terrorist attack on an AirTran flight from Atlanta was not on the plane according to the flight company’s documents.