Around the Web

For the week of Saturday, January 2 through Friday, January 8.

1) Roger Kimball's introduction to “The New Statism and the Assault on Individual Liberty,” a symposium organized jointly by The New Criterion and London’s Social Affairs Unit.

2) In the WSJ, Judith H. Dobrzynski on Albrecht Altdorfer's "The Battle of Issus."

3) The "Edge Annual Question 2010": How is the internet changing the way you think?

4) In Standpoint, Fisun Güner on Vincent van Gogh and "an end to the myth of the tortured soul."

5) From Jessica Duchen in Standpoint: Pianist Kirill Gerstein has been named the 2010 Gilmore Artist.