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The Editors are pleased to announce the start of the 2010 Fall season! We welcome new and returning readers to peruse our September issue, which features articles by Conrad Black, Andrew C. McCarthy, and James Piereson. For full access to The New Criterion, you can subscribe here. Don't forget to check out our new epub for iPad

September 2010

Volume 29, Number 1

Notes & comments

Wrong vs. Rights

On the "Ground Zero Mosque" controversy & the nature of Islam.

Features

Newspaper's last gasp?

by Conrad Black

On the future of old media.

“Organized” crime

by Andrew C. McCarthy

On the President's favorite philosopher, Saul Alinsky.

Columbia beats Harvard

by James Piereson

On rival core curricula in the Ivy League.

Souvenirs d'Italie

by Marco Grassi

On the Sienese in the Renaissance & the Richard Feigen Collection.

September 2010

Volume 29, Number 1

Departments

Poems


Theater

A hypothetical Jew

by Kevin D. Williamson

On Al Pacino as Shylock, Freud's Last Session, & Hater.


Art

The pleasures of late Renoir

by Karen Wilkin

On "Renoir in the 20th Century” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Exhibition note

by Christie Davies

On "Rude Britannia: British Comic Art” at the Tate Britain, London.

Gallery chronicle

by James Panero

On “Heat Waves in a Swamp: The Paintings of Charles Burchfield” at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York & “Charles Burchfield: Fifty Years as a Painter” at DC Moore Gallery, New York.


Music

New York chronicle

by Jay Nordlinger

On the Mostly Mozart Festival.


The Media

In our own right

by James Bowman

On the necessity of self-doubt.


Notebook

The postmodern calculus

by James Franklin

On spurious sociologies & the threat they pose to science.

September 2010

Volume 29, Number 1

Books

Norman Podhoretz: A Biography

Aligned with liberty

on Norman Podhoretz: A Biography

by Thomas L. Jeffers

reviewed by Sol Stern

Bad Students, Not Bad Schools

Sisyphus goes to school

on Bad Students, Not Bad Schools

by Robert Weissberg

reviewed by Anthony Daniels

True Friendship: Geoffrey Hill, Anthony Hecht, and Robert Lowell Under the Sign of Eliot and Pound (The Anthony Hecht Lectures in the Humanities Series)

Among friends

on True Friendship: Geoffrey Hill, Anthony Hecht, and Robert Lowell Under the Sign of Eliot and Pound (The Anthony Hecht Lectures in the Humanities Series)

by Christopher Ricks

reviewed by Paul Dean

The Greek Poets: Homer to the Present

Not Oedipus

on The Greek Poets: Homer to the Present

by Peter Constantine,Rachel Hadas,Edmund Keeley,Karen Van Dyck,Robert Hass

reviewed by Evan Jones

Book title

Heart without hatred

on The Best of Frank O'Connor (Everyman's Library)

by Frank O'Connor,Julian Barnes

reviewed by Richard Tillinghast

Book title

Down the Thunder Road

on Chasing the White Dog: An Amateur Outlaw's Adventures in Moonshine

by Max Watman

reviewed by Joseph Tartakovsky

Book title

Shorter notice

on Great Books, Bad Arguments: "Republic", "Leviathan", and "The Communist Manifesto"

by W. G. Runciman

reviewed by Samuel Goldman

Book title

Shorter notice

on The Blaze of Obscurity: Unreliable Memoirs V

by Clive James

reviewed by Sunil Iyengar

Bookstore

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