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The New Criterion

Quite simply, the best cultural review in the world
- John O’Sullivan

May 2008Volume 26, Number 9  

Notes & Comments

Art & ethics at Yale

On the Aliza Shvarts affair.

Libel tourism

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?

by Roger Kimball

An introduction to our special issue on education.

On the sadness of higher education

by Alan Charles Kors

On comparing the university life then with now.

The world we have lost: a parable on the academy

by Robert L. Paquette

On the Alexander Hamilton Center affair at Hamilton College.

The new learning that failed

by Victor Davis Hanson

On the value of classical learning.

Liberalism vs. humanism

by James Piereson

On the battle between learning for the sake of learning and learning for utility.

The age of educational romanticism

by Charles Murray

On requiring every child to be above average.

Poems

Theater

Friends & neighbors

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

Courbet at the Met

by Karen Wilkin

On "Gustave Courbet" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Filippo in Florence

by Marco Grassi

On “Filippo Napoletano alla Corte di Cosimo II de’ Medici” at the Galleria Palatina in the Palazzo Pitti, Florence.

Gallery chronicle

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

New York chronicle

by Jay Nordlinger

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.

Concert note

by Ben Finane

On Alfred Brendel at Carnegie Hall.

The Media

Smear tactics

by James Bowman

On the proclivity to sling mud.

Books

With all due respect

by John Gross

On Great Victorian Lives: An Era in Obituaries, edited by Ian Brunskill.

Communicators

by Denis Donoghue

On The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume XIII, A Vision; The Original 1925 Version., edited by Catherine E. Paul & Margaret Mills.

Virgil up to speed

by Richard Garner

On The Aeneid, translated by Sarah Ruden.

Evil's supreme logic

by Tess Lewis

On Detective Story by Imre Kertész.

Notebook

Ionesco & the limits of philosophy

by Anthony Daniels

On Le roi se meurt by Eugène Ionesco and the philosophy of Owen Flanagan.

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