A moralist need not be a scold, though Himmelfarb insisted that there was a rightful place for scolds too. The idea that moralism is inherently inauthentic, or is some kind of pompous, false ...

IT IS hard to know what is meant by a moral novelist, or what people think they are talking about when they ask for commitment, affirmation, or messages. The view attributed to Ernest Hemingway is, ...

Editors’ note: The following is an edited version of remarks delivered for The Georgian Group in February 2022. Typical of British society before the revolution in America, a society that spanned the ...

You might have missed the irony. If so, it would be easy to understand. Last week's bulletin about accused serial rapist Bill Cosby was sensational enough that one might be forgiven for failing to ...

[Louis] Janover, the ex-editor of Front Noir, who now seems to be the only author in issue #1 of the Cahiers de Front Noir,1 is a moralist, simply because he collected for [Maximilien] Rubel the ...

Sontag: Her Life says she wrote Freud: The Mind of the Moralist by Philip Rieff, whom she married at 17 A new biography of Susan Sontag is set to claim that the American writer was the true author of ...

The passing of Gertrude Himmelfarb, who died on December 30th at the age of 97, is a loss felt keenly by all who had the good fortune to know her. To family and friends, she was known as Bea Kristol, ...