Jacques Barzun Dies at 104

Prominent Columbia professor, historian, and philosopher Jacques Barzun died on Thursday in San Antonio, Texas. Barzun ran Columbia's Great Books course along with Lionel Trilling.

Here is a note on Barzun at 100 from The Review's own Professor Jeffrey Hart.

--Adam I. W. Schwartzman

Articles of the Day, 12/12/10

We have a nice pair of articles for you today:

First up, Professor Emeritus Jeffrey Hart remembers one of his more eccentric and stylish acquaintences in Bill Clifton and His Modernist Moment. Following that, we have Georgia Travers on Link Up's second annual Proud To Be A Woman dinner in Spears Keynotes Women's Banquet.

--Sterling C. Beard