Special Guest: Terry Teachout

Kurt Andersen and Terry Teachout explore the role criticism plays in the arts today, and how the internet is changing what it means to be a critic.  

Terry Teachout is the rare critic who covers music, dance, books, and the visual arts. He is a columnist for The Washington Post, drama critic for The Wall Street Journal, and a music critic for Commentary. The Terry Teachout Reader, a collection of his essays, has just been published by Yale University Press. The Skeptic is Teachout's biography of H.L. Mencken, and he is writing a biography of choreographer George Ballanchine. On the internet, Teachout writes a blog about the arts, updated constantly, called "About Last Night."