Jonathan Clarke

Jan 18, 2025 | city-journal.org | Jonathan Clarke

In 2004, I attended a performance of Gatz, a stage adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby that, in addition to witty interpretations of the novel’s key scenes, featured Fitzgerald’s entire text read aloud by the actors. The performance was seven hours long, including an intermission for dinner. At the break, the audience members began glancing at one another nervously, like fans at a ballpark when the home team pitcher has a no-hitter going.

Jan 7, 2025 | fsm-online.co.uk | Jonathan Clarke

By Jonathan Clarke, Development Director at Oxford United. On behalf of the stadium project team, I wish you all a Happy New Year. We made tremendous strides last year towards our goal of securing a permanent, sustainable home that protects the long-term future of the Club and delivers a host of excellent benefits to the wider community.

Dec 31, 2024 | city-journal.org | Jonathan Clarke

In 1967, Norman Podhoretz, then the 34-year-old editor of Commentary, published a memoir, Making It, in which he confessed to a powerful drive for status, money, and other conventional forms of success. What’s more, he asserted that other New York intellectuals, who customarily disclaimed interest in such matters, secretly felt exactly as he did. The book was a minor scandal: Podhoretz spoke a forbidden truth.

Nov 15, 2024 | city-journal.org | Jonathan Clarke

In September, the University of Notre Dame inaugurated a new president, Rev. Robert A. (“Bob”) Dowd, C.S.C. Father Dowd succeeds Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., whose successful 19-year run was crowned, in 2023, with Notre Dame’s admission to the American Association of Universities, a consortium of the nation’s leading public and private research universities.

Nov 5, 2024 | politicsincolor.com | Jonathan Clarke

By now, millions of Americans across the nation are voting in what many have claimed is its most consequential presidential election of a generation, perhaps in its history, it’s worth looking back four years ago to March 2020. The Coronavirus pandemic was just establishing a foothold. People across the globe were searching for answers, trying to get a handle on the magnitude of the health crisis, and looking for whatever assurances they could find. One leader gave them all they were looking for.