Arts and Culture Critic

Paul du Quenoy

2 articles 2014–2015

Paul du Quenoy is a historian and cultural commentator who contributed arts and culture criticism to The Weekly Standard. His pieces for the magazine reviewed opera and theater productions.

Good Night, Sweet Prince

March 10, 2014 · Vladimir Putin, Paul du Quenoy, Magazine

February was a bad month for Vladimir Putin. Despite Russia’s impressive Olympic victories, the Sochi Games turned out to be a $51 billion showcase of graft and corruption that even the Kremlin’s deftest apologists could not explain away without sounding embarrassingly Soviet. Then, as the…