Individuals whose names are marked with an asterisk [*] were cited in What Art Is: The Esthetic Theory of Ayn Rand (2000). Unless otherwise indicated, all entries dated on or before October 2, 2005, were originally posted in the January 2006 issue of Aristos.
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2018
"The Scrapbook" (Weekly Standard Magazine Feature)2017
John Borstlap (Dutch Composer, Author)
2016
Kate Davis (New York City resident)2012
Andrew Ferguson (Journalist)
National Civic Art Society (Cultural Institution)
2010
Gerrard Barnes (U.K.)
Mark Morris (Choreographer)
2009
George Will (Columnist)
Susan Cinoman (Playwright)
Janet Daley (Columnist, Daily Telegraph, U.K.)
Theresa Rebeck (Playwright)
2008
A.C. Douglas (Independent Music/Culture Critic)2007
Joan Altabe (Art Critic, Fine Arts Registry / Bradenton [Fla.] Herald)
Jon Carroll (Columnist, San Francisco Chronicle)
Rupert Christiansen (Music Critic, London
Telegraph)
Jeff Jacoby (Columnist, Boston Globe)
Heather Mac Donald (Contributing Editor, City Journal; Fellow, the Manhattan Institute)
John Silber (President, then
Chancellor, Boston University, 1976-2003)
2006
Joan Altabe (Art Critic, Fine Arts Registry / Bradenton [Fla.] Herald)
Giles Auty (former Art Critic, The Spectator and The Australian
)
Ken Masugi (Senior Fellow,
Claremont Institute)
Lionel Shriver (Novelist)
Tom Snyder (M.D.)
2005
Joan Altabe (Art Critic, Fine Arts Registry / Bradenton [Fla.] Herald)
Victoria Dailey (Beverly Hills, Calif.)
Jennie
Farrell (Wantagh, N.Y.)
Kaley Holmboe (sixteen-year-old student, London)
Joshua Kosman (Music Critic, San Francisco Chronicle)
National Review
New York Daily News
Henry J. Stern (Director, New York
Civic; former Commissioner of Parks, New York City)
2004
Dave Barry (Humor Columnist, Miami Herald)
Alicia Colon (Columnist, New York Sun)
Alfred N. Garwood (Vail, Ariz.)
Bernard Holland (Music Critic, New York
Times)
Henry J. Stern (Director, New York Civic; former Commissioner of Parks, New York City)
2003
Alicia Colon (Columnist, New York Sun)
Dave Barry (Humor Columnist, Miami Herald)
Daniel Graves (Painter; Founding Director, Florence Academy of Art)
Bernard Holland (Music Critic, New York Times)
Edward J. Ross (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.)
Witold Rybczynski (Architecture Critic, Slate)
Julian Spalding (Former Director, the Glasgow [Scotland] Museums)
2002
Dave Barry (Humor Columnist, Miami Herald)
Dave Barry (Humor Columnist, Miami Herald)
Heather Mac Donald
(Contributing Editor, City Journal; Fellow, the
Manhattan Institute)
George Will (Columnist, Washington Post and Newsweek)
2001
Linda Chavez (Columnist)
John Leo (Columnist and Contributing Editor, U.S. News & World Report)
George Will (Columnist,
Washington Post and Newsweek)
George
Will (Columnist, Washington Post and Newsweek)
2000
David L. Cowen (Monroe Township, N.J.)
John Zeaman (Art Critic, The Record (Bergen County, N.J.)
1999
Theodore Dalrymple (Contributing Editor, City Journal)p
1998
* William Rusher (Columnist; Distinguished Fellow, the Claremont Institute)
1997
* Kwame Anthony Appiah (Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University
Philip Roth (Novelist)
* Morley Safer (News Correspondent, CBS)
1996
* Charles Spencer (Theater Critic, Daily Telegraph (London)
1995
Lynne Cheney (Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute)
* Jeff Jacoby (Columnist, Boston Globe)
* John Leo (Columnist
and Contributing Editor, U. S. News & World
Report)
* R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. (Founder and Editor in Chief, The American Spectator)
1994
* Lisa Albert (Television Writer)
* Arlene Croce (Dance Critic)
* George Will (Columnist, Washington Post
and Newsweek)
1993
Witold Rybczynski (Architecture Critic, Slate)
* Morley Safer (News Correspondent, CBS)
1992
* David Halle (Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles)
* Bill Watterson (Cartoonist)
1991
* Alec Sologob (Guard, Museum of Modern Art, New York City)
* John Tierney (Metro Reporter, New York Times)
1990
* Irving Kristol, 1920-2009 (Founder and Co-Editor, The Public Interest)
1988
Donal Henahan, 1921-2012 (Music Critic, New York Times)
Robert Patrick (Playwright)
1985
Richard Lack, 1928–2009 (Painter, Teacher, Author)
1980
Kenneth M. Lansing (Professor of Art and Education, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
1978
* Jacques Barzun, 1907-2012 (Cultural Historian)
1975
* Tom Wolfe (Author)
1974
* Jacques Barzun, 1907-2012 (Cultural Historian)
1969
Richard Lack, 1928–2009 (Painter, Teacher, Author)
1962
Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1890-1969 (U.S. President [1953-1961] / Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, World War II)
1961
Roger Burlingame, 1889-1967 (Editor, Historian, Novelist)
1959
John Canaday, 1907-1985 (Critic and Art Historian)
1946
R. H. Ives Gammell, 1893-1981 (Painter, Teacher, Author)
1912
* Kenyon Cox, 1856-1919 (Painter, Critic)
* Cited in What Art Is: The Esthetic Theory of Ayn Rand (2000)