Cultural Commentator

Ben Novak

1 article 2000

Ben Novak contributed to The Weekly Standard, writing about cultural or historical topics with a European dimension. His work for the magazine included a piece exploring themes suggested by its German-inflected title on cowboys and Indians.

Cowboys und Indians

December 25, 2000 · Magazine, Books and Arts

At the 1949 Goethe Bicentennial Celebration in Aspen, Colorado, two tribes of American Indians staged a mock battle for the foreign visitors. In the audience were Albert Einstein and Albert Schweitzer, both then in their seventies. At the end of the battle, when one of the Indians raced across the…