Daniel Gullotta
Daniel Gullotta is a historian of American religion and a PhD candidate at Stanford. He tweets at @DanielGullotta
Opiate for the leftists
How Wokeism tries (and succeeds) at filling a religion-shaped void within the American left’s psyche
The Second Coming of George W. Bush
The public image of the 43rd President of the United States has undergone a surprising revival
What can Never Trump learn from the nineteenth century’s Free Soilers?
The pre-Civil War era contains plenty of lessons for contemporary politics
The exec on an unfiltered journey
It seems dangerously liable to foster neuroticism and credulity
Two sides of the weird frontier
The archly neutral now stands on the margins, looking out at a society of fear and outrage
Peers but not equals
Ferdinand Ries: Symphonies 1&2 (Ondine); Franz Clement: Solo violin works (Naxos)
Lucia di Lammermoor, Royal Opera House
It’s an amazing paradox that something as tawdry as opera can produce such a pure expression of what it is to be human
The Venice Art Biennale
The overall tone is rather bloodless, smug and muted where one might hope for exhilaration
Where are the real statesmen?
Neither populists nor managerialists can rule
The Conservative immigration betrayal
The Tories have delivered immigration on an absolutely unprecedented scale
The whores and mores of Hanoverian London
The (not so) gentlemen of 18th-century London were a libidinous lot
The end of “Anglo-Saxon”?
The rebranding of Anglo-Saxon England is senseless and silly