Dr. Robert Zaller

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Month: January 2017

Politics

What Should the Left Do in the Trump Era?

January 24, 2017 Robert Zaller 0

Get over it, Joe Biden was advising us the other day. It’s happened, it’s done. Well, yes. Donald Trump is our 45th president, and our cross to bear. And, okay, what next? A lot of [ Read Article ]

Politics

Tantrums from the Commander-in-Chief: Not a Good Way To Go

January 11, 2017 Robert Zaller 0

In her classic study, On Death and Dying, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross identified five stages of reaction in patients suddenly informed of a terminal illness: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. President Barack Obama, in the lame-duck [ Read Article ]

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Poor Richard, Poor Donald: Philip Guston’s Timely Show at Hauser & Wirth

January 11, 2017 Robert Zaller 0

There isn’t a timelier art exhibit anywhere at the moment than the show of Philip Guston’s suite of drawings about Richard Nixon and his era now on display at Hauser & Wirth’s new gallery on [ Read Article ]

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Still Standing Tall: The Emerson Quartet Performs

January 11, 2017 Robert Zaller 0

The Emerson Quartet has been one of the world’s renowned chamber ensembles for some forty years. Aurally, it established itself from the beginning with a hard, driving performance style that refreshed classics grown staid with [ Read Article ]

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“An Idiot, an Imbecile, and a Pickpocket”: Francis Picabia at the Museum of Modern Art

January 11, 2017 Robert Zaller 0

Francis Picabia (1879-1953), born in Paris to a French mother and a Cuban father, was an exact contemporary of Pablo Picasso and a close one of Braque and Léger. His painterly skill and pictorial imagination [ Read Article ]

Politics

Obama: The Farewell Address You Won’t Hear

January 11, 2017 Robert Zaller 0

What comes with a new administration is an inaugural speech and a State of the Union address, in which, relieved of the baggage of campaign promises, the new president announces what his (or, someday, her) [ Read Article ]

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About the Author

Dr. Robert Zaller is an American author, playwright, and professor of history at Drexel University. An authority on British political history and constitutional thought, he writes extensively on politics, modern literature, film, music and art. He has been a Guggenheim fellow and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

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