Helen Andrews is a journalist and essayist known for her cultural criticism and writing on politics, history, and ideas. She contributed essays and book reviews to The Weekly Standard during 2016–2017, covering topics ranging from academia and humor to economics and religion. She is a senior editor at The American Conservative and author of *Boomers: The Men and Women Who Promised Freedom and Delivered Disaster*.
Robert Skidelsky, whose biography of John Maynard Keynes is unlikely ever to be surpassed, judged that his subject “never needed a Jehovah, because he had never experienced despair.” Skidelsky was speaking of religion and morals, a department where Keynes was a typical Bloomsbury hedonist. In…
Dante puts Pontius Pilate in the outermost circle of Hell, among the indolent—scant punishment, you might think, for the man who executed Jesus Christ. By letting Pilate off easy, Dante was situating himself firmly on one side of a centuries-old debate: Who was more responsible for killing Christ,…
Dante puts Pontius Pilate in the outermost circle of Hell, among the indolent—scant punishment, you might think, for the man who executed Jesus Christ. By letting Pilate off easy, Dante was situating himself firmly on one side of a centuries-old debate: Who was more responsible for killing Christ,…
As John Tyler Wheelwright sat in Harvard's Holden Chapel listening to Charles Eliot Norton lecture on the fine arts in January 1876, "Ralph Curtis snapped at me a little three-cornered note—'Come to Sherwood's room after lecture. We are to start a College Punch.' " From that paper football sprang a…
As John Tyler Wheelwright sat in Harvard's Holden Chapel listening to Charles Eliot Norton lecture on the fine arts in January 1876, "Ralph Curtis snapped at me a little three-cornered note—'Come to Sherwood's room after lecture. We are to start a College Punch.' " From that paper football sprang a…