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Jun 7, 2024 | 
foreignaffairs.co.nz | Jeffrey Peter Hart
Source: The Conversation – USA – By Jeffrey Hart, Senior Lecturer of Finance, Auburn UniversityAs the saying goes, “There are lies, damn lies and statistics.”And on the first Friday of every month, the American public gets a ton of new statistics to peruse. That’s when the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics releases its latest jobs figures.
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May 29, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Jeffrey Peter Hart
Fund sponsors often engage investment banking or placement firms to help raise capital or generate deal flow for their funds. In exchange, the sponsor may offer a cash fee, a piece of the sponsor’s carried interest, equity in the applicable portfolio company, or some other form of compensation. Many sponsors and advisors are unaware that these activities can trigger broker-dealer registration requirements under federal and state law.
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May 1, 2024 | 
newcriterion.com | Roger Scruton |Jeffrey Peter Hart |James Panero |Gary Saul Morson
If you are on the hunt for Classical sculpture, you could obviously do much worse than Rome. From the Laocoön in the Vatican Museums to the Augustus of Prima Porta, Rome is replete with beautiful statuary. The city’s many museums carry some of the oldest and most superb examples. For all the sculpture that the Eternal City has to offer, the Musei Capitolini thought that it would add a little more with its latest exhibition, “Fidia.”Phidias (ca.
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
newcriterion.com | Isaac Sligh |Jeffrey Peter Hart |James Panero |John Simon
Recent stories of note:“‘After 1177 B.C.’ Review: How the Bronze Age Turned Iron”Dominic Green, The Wall Street JournalIn March, Dominic Green treated the Friends of The New Criterion to a brisk anatomy of the twenty-first century’s savages—those who seek to destroy the West’s cultural institutions. But he also offered a hopeful forecast for these institutions’ futures.
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
newcriterion.com | On Byron |Robert Frost |Isaac Sligh |Jeffrey Peter Hart
Recent stories of note:“Why art biennales are (mostly) trash”Digby Warde-Aldam, The Spectator WorldThe last time The New Criterion covered any of the international art world’s many-hundred biennales in depth was 2017, when James Panero visited the Venice Biennale.
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
newcriterion.com | Isaac Sligh |Jeffrey Peter Hart |James Panero |John Simon
Over the course of the thirty years that I taught art history to college undergraduates, introducing my students to the manuscript illuminations and panel paintings of the fifteenth-century Flemish painter Jan van Eyck always gave me an especial pleasure.
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Apr 22, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Jeffrey Peter Hart
Co-investments play an important role in alternative asset investments. A “co-investment” generally is a portfolio company investment made by an institutional investor, at its discretion, alongside a sponsor’s “blind pool” investment fund. This post describes some benefits and risks of co-investments, both to investors and sponsors, and some of the commonly negotiated terms. Co-investments offer several advantages to institutional investors compared to traditional fund investments.
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Apr 17, 2024 | 
newcriterion.com | Roger Scruton |James Panero |Jeffrey Peter Hart |Gary Saul Morson
Angelica Kauffman (1741–1807) was one of the most admired, desired, and envied European artists of her day. She now holds a more subtle role in the history of art. Compared to female artists such as Frida Kahlo and Artemisia Gentileschi, she lacks extremity. Perhaps she remains too close to aristocracy, a now-discarded classicism, and a life governed by manners.
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Apr 17, 2024 | 
newcriterion.com | Isaac Sligh |Jeffrey Peter Hart |James Panero |John Simon
Take comfort! You would not seek me had you not found me. —Blaise PascalWhere I came from, I cannot say for sure. These pathsbear no names. The houses to which they leadover the remains of snowfields hover in the east wind like hawks. Fog born from the Bohemian basin, and aglow in the distance,the last village before the border, the rocks sinking into sleep,broad-browed, cold, having drunk from Saxony’s Lethe.
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Apr 17, 2024 | 
newcriterion.com | Jeffrey Peter Hart |Isaac Sligh |James Panero |Roger Scruton
On March 8, the droit à l’avortement, the “right to abortion,” was solemnly enshrined in our constitution. France can thus take pride in being the first country in the world to have raised abortion to the level of a “fundamental freedom” and even an essential “republican principle” because, as several supporters of this revision have declared, the French Republic without abortion would no longer be the Republic. Nothing less.
