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The New Criterion

The New Criterion is probably more consistently worth reading than any other magazine in English.
- The Times Literary Supplement

February 2010Volume 28, Number 6  

Notes & Comments

Dhimmitude at the Met

On the Met's new galleries dedicated to art from the "Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Late South Asia."

The Malaysian alternative

On linguistic timorousness off the Timor coast.

The Hamilton follies cont'd

On the costs of contemporary college education.

Features

Ayn Rand: engineer of souls

by Anthony Daniels

A critical account of the "Chernyshevsky of individualism."

Remembering Irving Kristol

by James Piereson

On the godfather of modern conservatism & his intellectual legacy.

Carlyle the wise

by Barton Swaim

On the political thought of Thomas Carlyle.

Frost's notebooks: a disaster revisited

by William Logan

On Harvard's half-baked reissue of The Notebooks of Robert Frost.

Poems

Reconsiderations

The most hated man in New York

by Allen C. Guelzo

On ”Lincoln and New York” at the New-York Historical Society, New York.

Theater

Sex, race & super-8

by Kevin D. Williamson

On Race & Oleanna by David Mamet, Ernest in Love at the Irish Repertory Theater & Jerk by Gisèle Vienne

Art

Moderns in the Hague

by Karen Wilkin

On “Cézanne, Picasso, Mondriaan” at the Geementsmuseum, The Hague, The Netherlands.

Exhibition note

by Mario Naves

On "Gabriel Orozco" at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Exhibition note

by Christie Davies

On "The Conversation Piece: Scenes of Fashionable Life" at The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London.

Gallery chronicle

by James Panero

On the Bushwick art scene, the "Inaugural Exhibition" at Storefront, “The Wells Street Gallery Revisited: Then and Now” at Lesley Heller Workspace, “Works on Paper” at Danese & “Jack Tworkov: True and False” at Mitchell-Innes & Nash.

Music

New York chronicle

by Jay Nordlinger

On Elektra, Carmen & Turandot at the Metropolitan Opera, Messiah at the New York Philharmonic, the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra at Carnegie Hall & Anthony McGill at the Metropolitan Museum.

The Media

Unhappy is the land

by James Bowman

On the deleterious effects of political correctness on public policy.

Books

Notebook

Unmasking the unmaskers

by Gary Saul Morson

On the uses & abuses of the Great Books.

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