My essay on Heine and Dante (in fact, on idealized love for Beatrice vs Herodias) appears on the main First Things website this morning. Heinrich Heine remains my moral compass, not because he got everything right (he got many things hideously wrong until the very end of his life) but because he always was all in. He went after his friends with the same gusto as he went after his enemies when they did stupid things, and he took no…

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Loving Herodias