How to Fight a Huck

culture; it plays with them as, say, in the great age of the arts a painter might have played with the colors on his palette… The game could, for instance, start with a given astronomical configuration, or with the theme of a fugue by Bach, or with a sentence from Leibniz or the Upanishads.

Lapham’s Quarterly is a little like that, but Hesse’s image fails to convey the skin-crawling nausea the magazine induces.

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Ramesh Ponnuru

Ramesh Ponnuru is the editor of National Review, a columnist for the Washington Post, and a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

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culture; it plays with them as, say, in the great age of the arts a painter might have played with the colors on his palette… The game could, for instance, start with a given astronomical configuration, or with the theme of a fugue by Bach, or with a sentence from Leibniz or the Upanishads.

Lapham’s Quarterly is a little like that, but Hesse’s image fails to convey the skin-crawling nausea the magazine induces.