10 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
American theatre director and patron who co-founded the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York's Lower East Side with her sister Irene — creating one of the most influential alternative theatres in American history, which later became the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre.
American Jungian analyst practicing in New York and a senior figure in the Jungian Analysts of New York — whose clinical and teaching work has contributed to the development of Jungian psychology in the United States.
American politician — brother of William F. Buckley Jr. — Senator from New York (1971–77, Conservative Party) — Federal Judge (DC Circuit) — whose 1976 Buckley v. Valeo Supreme Court victory established that campaign spending is protected First Amendment speech.
American conservative commentator — editor of Commentary magazine — former White House speechwriter (Reagan and H.W. Bush) — son of Norman Podhoretz — one of the leading voices in neoconservative political commentary.
American art dealer and collector who was a significant figure in the New York art world of the early 20th century — associated with the same community as Coomaraswamy, the Lewisohn sisters, and the broader network of arts figures in the Armory Show era.
American sculptor and arts organizer who was a participant in the 1913 Armory Show — the watershed exhibition that introduced European modernism to America — and who was embedded in the same New York arts community as the Lewisohn sisters and Herbert Crowley.
American editor and intellectual — editor of Commentary magazine (1960–1995) — founding father of neoconservatism — author of Making It (1967) and Breaking Ranks (1979) — who transformed Commentary from a Jewish intellectual journal into the flagship publication of the neoconservative movement.
George Dawes Green's 1994 debut novel — about a homeless genius living in a cave in Central Park who investigates a murder — which won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel.
George Dawes Green's 1995 debut thriller — about a juror blackmailed by the mob during a Mafia trial — which became a bestseller and was adapted into a 1996 film with Demi Moore and Alec Baldwin.
Robert Caro's 1974 biography of Robert Moses — the unelected New York City parks commissioner who shaped the city's physical form through 44 years of power — Pulitzer Prize — the greatest American political biography and one of the greatest works of American nonfiction.