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Most populargo to the complete list »January 2009Volume 27, Number 5Notes & comments On the first day of holiday . . . On dismaying disappearances from Junior's dictionary On the folly of speculating on contemporary art. Features Introduction: The dictatorship of relativism An introduction our symposium "The Dictatorship of Relativism: Who Will Stand Up for Western Values Now?” On the moral consequences of relativism (from "The Dictatorship of Relativism.") Relativism as political absolutism On the dangers of relativism to the nation-state (from "The Dictatorship of Relativism.") On the relativist threat to science (from "The Dictatorship of Relativism.") The temptation of Pope Benedict On the Pontiff's fight against relativism. ( from "The Dictatorship of Relativism.") Relativism: paving the road to radicalism On the misguided notion of "virtuous" jihad (from "The Dictatorship of Relativism.") January 2009Volume 27, Number 5Departments Poems Dance Theater by Brooke Allen On Farragut North at the Atlantic Theater Company, Prayer for My Enemy at Playwrights Horizon, and Mouth to Mouth at the New Group. Art On “Daniel Maclise: Romancing the Past” at the Crawford Gallery, Cork, Ireland, October 23, 2008 through February 14, 2009. by James Panero On “Frankenthaler at Eighty: Six Decades” at Knoedler & Co., New York. Music On the Kirov Orchestra at Avery Fisher Hall, Richard Egarr and Levine & Barenboim at Weill Recital Hall, Weilerstein & Maazel and Elektra at the New York Philharmonic, the Damnation of Faust and Tristan und Isolde at the Metropolitan Opera, The Dream of Jacob's Ladder at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, Piotr Anderszewski at Carnegie Hall, and Chanticleer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Media January 2009Volume 27, Number 5Books 
on The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution by Denis Dutton reviewed by John Derbyshire 
on Words by the Water (Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction) by William Jay Smith reviewed by Jeffrey Meyers 
on Dancing in the Garden: A Bittersweet Love Affair With France by William Jay Smith,Paul Rhoads reviewed by Jeffrey Meyers 
on Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis by Kingsley Amis,Christopher Hitchens reviewed by Andrew Stuttaford 
on White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson by Brenda Wineapple reviewed by Molly McQuade 
on Arguing Conservatism: Four Decades of Intercollegiate Review by Mark C. Henrie reviewed by Emily Esfehani-Smith |
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