Meet Harry

by John J. Miller on June 14, 2013 · 0 comments

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My article on the conservative scholar Harry V. Jaffa is in the new issue of National Review:

Jaffa may be the most important conservative political theorist of his generation. … Modern conservatism’s focus on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution — never absent, but increasingly prevalent in these tea-party times — owes much to Jaffa and his circle.

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Mailbag

by John J. Miller on June 12, 2013 · 0 comments

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The kind of email that makes an author’s day:

Subject: 1st Assassin = Lost Sleep!

I thought I’d sneak it into my schedule by reading 5 or 10 pages an evening. By the fourth night, I was so caught up in the book that I finished it -then realized it was 3 AM. I did not relish getting up at 5:30 to go to work the next day, but really enjoyed the book.  Thanks for a great read!

To lose your own sleep, get a copy of The First Assassin.

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Frida Kahlo

June 10, 2013

My recent Wall Street Journal article on the Detroit Institute of Arts mentions Diego Rivera. It’s not the first time I’d referred to the Mexican artist in the Journal. That would have been in 2001, when I wrote a story on a U.S. stamp bearing the image of Rivera’s one-time wife, the Stalin-loving artist Frida [...]

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Diego Rivera 1999

June 7, 2013

The opening of my article on the Detroit Institute of Arts in the Wall Street Journal this week mentions Diego Rivera’s Detroit Industry Murals. I was able to write it because I’ve had framed pictures of the murals in my home or office for nearly 20 years. I also own a copy of Diego Rivera: The Detroit [...]

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Detroit Fire Sale?

June 4, 2013

My article on how the Detroit Institute of Arts may be forced to sell its world-class art collection is in today’s Wall Street Journal: Last month, Detroit’s emergency financial manager notified the DIA that its art is a municipal asset and might be sold to satisfy creditors. The art world is watching to see what [...]

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Summer Reading 2013

May 29, 2013

My picks, in an NRO symposium: Heart of Ice, by P. J. Parrish — A good murder mystery needs a good setting. This one takes place on Michigan’s Mackinac Island, and I’m saving it for my own visit next month, when I’ll spend a night at the Grand Hotel for the first time. Ice Hunter, [...]

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