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Most populargo to the complete list »May 2008Volume 26, Number 9Notes & comments On the Aliza Shvarts affair. On "Free Speech in an Age of Jihad," the conference hosted by The New Criterion and the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. Features Introduction: What was a liberal education? An introduction to our special issue on education. On the sadness of higher education On comparing the university life then with now. The world we have lost: a parable on the academy On the Alexander Hamilton Center affair at Hamilton College. On the battle between learning for the sake of learning and learning for utility. May 2008Volume 26, Number 9Departments Poems Theater by Brooke Allen On In the Heights at the Richard Rodgers Theatre, Almost an Evening at the Theatres at 45 Bleecker Street, Parlour Song at the Atlantic Theater, and The Four of Us at Manhattan Theatre Club. Art by Karen Wilkin On "Gustave Courbet" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. by Marco Grassi On “Filippo Napoletano alla Corte di Cosimo II de’ Medici” at the Galleria Palatina in the Palazzo Pitti, Florence. by James Panero On “John Dubrow: Paintings” at Lori Bookstein Fine Art, “Wayne Thiebaud: The Figure” at Allan Stone Gallery, “Gregory Crewdson” at Luhring Augustine, and “Lois Dodd: Landscapes and Structures, a Survey Exhibition” at Alexandre Gallery. Music On the San Francisco Symphony at Carnegie Hall, Daniel Gaisford at Bargemusic, the Berlin Philharmonic's Salzburg Easter Festival, Dmitri Hvorostovsky at Carnegie Hall, Julian Bliss at the Walter Reade Theater, and David Shifrin at the Rose Theater. The Media Notebook Ionesco & the limits of philosophy On Le roi se meurt by Eugène Ionesco and the philosophy of Owen Flanagan. May 2008Volume 26, Number 9Books 
on The Times Great Victorian Lives: An Era in Obituaries (Times (Times Books)) by Ian Brunskill reviewed by John Gross 
on The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume XIII: A Vision: The Original 1925 Version (Collected Works of W B Yeats) by William Butler Yeats,Catherine E. Paul,Margaret Mills Harper reviewed by Denis Donoghue 
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