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President and Mrs. Bush Attend Presentation of the 2008 National Medals of Arts and National Humanities Medals - November 17, 2008
Mrs. Bush on Monday said, "Welcome to this White House for this special occasion -- the presentation of the National Medals of the Arts and the National Humanities Medals. These medals recognize great contributions to art, music, theater, literature, history, and general scholarship. ...
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A True Humanist
City Journal Eye on the News and Books and Culture — Congratulations are in order for my friend and colleague Myron Magnet, one of nine people whom President Bush honored today with a prestigious National Humanities Medal. Myron richly deserves the award, both for his work as an editor—under his leadership, City Journal became one of the nation’s most respected and influential intellectual magazines—and as a literary and cultural critic of extraordinary perceptiveness, a worthy heir to Lionel Trilling. Working with Myron at City Journal was an education in itself. Arriving at the magazine in late 1997 as senior editor, I had ...

November 18 roundup
Overlawyered — ... Congrats to historian Rick Brookhiser and City Journal editor Myron Magnet, among recipients of 2008 National Humanities Medal [White House release, ...

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