abstract:Terry Teachout (born 6 February 1956, Cape Girardeau, Missouri) is a critic, biographer, librettist, playwright, and blogger. He is the drama critic of The Wall Street Journal, the critic-at-large of Commentary, and the author of "Sightings," a column about the arts in America that appears biweekly in the Friday Wall Street Journal.
TerryTeachout, unlike Spengler, doesnotdump paralyzingmountainsof historical theory uponus, butthere are signs that hehas weighed, sifted and ponderedthe evidence.