Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov
Meditate on Dostoevsky’s final – and greatest – novel.
The man in the iconic white suit, Tom Wolfe is often celebrated as an ironist, gadfly, or stylist. But he was also a thinker of originality and power – overlooked as a counter-intellectual because his method was not polemic but devastating, irresistible satire. His writing did not mirror history but anticipated it.
This seminar will focus on Wolfe’s first novel – the literary blockbuster Bonfire of the Vanities – and its portrait of New York in the 1980s, a city seething with racial tension, class animosity, and unbridled status competition.
Image Credit: New York City-Midtown Manhattan Skyline from Hamilton Park 02, Daniel Mennerich, Flickr.
Matt Continetti on Conservative Intellectuals
This course takes place via Zoom over five sessions, held on Wednesdays, from 6 to 8 PM ET. Fellows will receive a $200 stipend contingent upon participation in the course and completion of a brief response paper. All course materials will be provided.
Faculty
Matthew Continetti
Matthew Continetti is resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, Prior to joining AEI, he was Editor in Chief of the Washington Free Beacon. His articles and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.
Matthew Continetti
Matthew Continetti is resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he focuses on American political thought and history, with a particular focus on the development of the Republican Party and the American conservative movement in the 20th century. He is the founding editor The Washington Free Beacon and was Editor in Chief until 2019. Prior to joining the Beacon, he was Opinion Editor of The Weekly Standard, where he remained a Contributing Editor until 2018.
The author of The K Street Gang: The Rise and Fall of the Republican Machine (Doubleday, 2006), Continetti’s articles and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post.
A 2003 graduate of Columbia University, where he majored in history, Continetti lives in McLean, Virginia.
