Teachout's

Terry Teachout's lament about public television arts programming "PBS Programming Continues to Aim Low," Sightings, Oct. 14 is the sort of cultural criticism that is designed to discredit public culture institutions by trapping them in no-win positions.

PBS Does Well, Given Its Resources and Constraints 2011

Despite Mr. Teachout's complaint that it has drifted too down market, public television actually is discouraged from being popular and entertaining lest it compete too effectively with the commercial media.

PBS Does Well, Given Its Resources and Constraints 2011

Terry Teachout's column "The More Things on the Small Screen Change . . .," Sightings, Dec. 9 on the 60th year of truly national TV broadcasts neglects one present-day link to 1951.

Lucy Was Great, but Betty Is Still at It 2011

Also of note: Terry Teachout's recent Mencken bio, The Skeptic.

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I would be on Teachout's side, but it's easier just to consider that Arthur Miller is the Eugene O'Neill of his generation -- you had to be there, or the creakiness overwhelmed.

All my sons and all my daughters get naked on stage 2008

The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy, with Terry Teachout's eloquent introduction by will be available in June.

A Different Stripe: 2007

The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy, with Terry Teachout's eloquent introduction by will be available in June.

Terry Teachout's Contentions 2007

Maude Newton's blog reproduces the text of Teachout's introduction.

"Paris was boiling hot" 2007

Perhaps unwittingly, this answers Teachout's question about jazz's future, since his own book shows how serious instrumental jazz music was just one cause of the fame accrued by one of its best-known entities.

Jazz Is Dead. Long Live Jazz. 2009

If, like me, you can't get enough of Terry Teachout's criticism in The Wall Street Journal, or on his blog (written with Laura Demanski) www. aboutlastnight.com, you might want to take a look at his weekly book review column for the Commentary blog, Contentions (Teachout's also the music critic for the journal, but you don't read that, do you?).

A Different Stripe: 2007