Why does modernist architecture produce so many soulless, ugly buildings? The answer lies with the early 20th-century rejection of objective truth and beauty, and the related dismissal of Greek and Roman traditions. President Donald Trump is considering an executive order favouring classical designs in all federal buildings. As Sumantra Maitha reports in The Federalist, this has drawn fierce opposition.

When the Waves Turn the Minutes to Hours
John R. Grove commemorates the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald with a moving meditation on Gordon Lightfoot’s song memorializing the disaster and its 29 forever-lost victims. Lightfoot’s poetry and melody in The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald not only hauntingly convey the tragedy’s essential elements but, Grove writes in Law & Liberty, open a window to the sublime.


