Aaron MacLean is a writer and policy analyst in Washington, D.C. From 2014 to 2017 he was the managing editor of the Washington Free Beacon.
The Businessman of the Avant-Garde
Review: Discovering the Impressionists, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, through September 13, 2015
Uncle Tom’s Cabin—in Marble
Review: Hiram Powers’ ‘Greek Slave,’ at the Smithsonian American Art Museum through February 19, 2017
Ghost of a Chance
Review: P.W. Singer and August Cole, ‘Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War’
Twenty Bucks to the First Reader Who Can Pronounce This Dutch Artist’s Name
Review: ‘Pleasure and Piety: The Art of Joachim Wtewael’ at the National Gallery of Art, Washington through October 4
Two Cheers for Capitalism at the Smithsonian
Review: The ‘Innovation, Creativity, and Enterprise’ wing at the National Museum of American History
Caillebotte’s Paris
Review: ‘Gustave Caillebotte, The Painter’s Eye’ at the National Gallery of Art through 4 October
A Surge for Justice
Review: Jill Leovy, ‘Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America’