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The New Racism Won’t Solve the Old Racism nytimes.com/2021/06/28/opi… "All this would have been too obvious for words until just a few years ago."

Sad to hear of Thomas Gordon Smoth's passing. His was a highly original talent in the classical/traditional field.

I like how there’s just one guy in the Rolling Stones that dresses like a regular 77 year-old man.

I am pleased to join Alice Waters, Joyce Carol Oates, Julian Fellowes, and Irving Penn as a contributor to "Home: A Celebration" (Rizzoli), a fundraiser for No Kid Hungry

Canceled for screening Olivier's Othello. The truly grotesque thing is that Bright Sheng, the professor the woke red guards went after, experienced the original Cultural Revolution in China. michigandaily.com/news/academics… and brightsheng.com/bio.html

The Shim-Sutcliffe door at the Corkin Gallery. It mystifies me that many architects don’t understand the importance of a front door handle

The Russian Embassy in Lisbon. Two neighbouring houses are projecting the blue and yellow onto its facade. The ambassador is reportedly “apoplectic”.

Happy Birthday Mr. Olmsted! hedgehogreview.com/issues/politic…

Preparing for Defeat americanpurpose.com/articles/prepa…

Must read. My brilliant, acerbic, and truly expert colleague Steve Kotkin. “A Scholar of Stalin Discusses Putin, Russia, Ukraine, and the West” | The New Yorker newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/s…

Does anyone think Ukraine wouldn’t be a valued member of NATO now?

A richly informative obit for Christopher Alexander in the New York Times, by Penelope Green. nytimes.com/2022/03/29/art…

We need to think about the worst-case scenario that could arise from Putin's invasion of Ukraine. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

200 years today. Happy birthday Mr Olmsted.🌿

Henry Bacon and Daniel Chester French's Lincoln Memorial turned 100 this week Read about in my "Story of Architecture," coming from Yale this October.

Aalto in the snow

A holiday gift for the budding architect on your list.

ICAA has just posted a video of my lecture on Charleston LITTLE HOUSES AND BIG DREAMS IN THE HOLY CITY. classicist.org/articles/endur…

Read an excerpt of THE DRIVING MACHINE on Literary Hub, lithub.com/the-peoples-ca…