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February 2011 Volume 29, Number 6  

Notes & Comments

PC DTs
On bowdlerizing the bard of Hannibal.

Requiescant in pace
by , Elizabeth Barlow Rogers
I.M. Denis Dutton, 1944–2010.


Features

Liberty vs. benevolence
by Roger Kimball
An introduction to Limited government in an age of uncertainty.

The wisdom of “The Federalist”
by Harvey Mansfield
On the balance between saftey & strength in the thinking of Publius.

Silenced Cal
by Amity Shlaes
Rethinking the legacy of Calvin Coolidge.

The liberal vanguard
by James Piereson
On the works of John Maynard Keynes & his most influential acolyte, John Kenneth Galbraith.

The law: servant or master?
by Andrew C. McCarthy
On the rule of law in the Constitution.

Don't mess with the U.S.
by John R. Bolton
On liberty & the geopolitical landscape.

A response to Harvey Mansfield & Amity Shlaes
by William Kristol

A response to James Piereson & Andrew C. McCarthy
by Jeremy Rabkin


Poems

The top
by Amit Majmudar

Why we go by twos
by Linda Stern

The washing of the bodies
by David R. Slavitt


Theater

The hunger artists
by Kevin D. Williamson
On Zero Hour, Dollface & A Little Night Music.


Art

Ab Ex at MOMA
by Karen Wilkin
On “Abstract Expressionist New York” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Exhibition note
by Anthony Daniels
On "Felix Nussbaum 1904–1944” at Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaisme, Paris.

Exhibition note
by Christie Davies
On "Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance & the Camera” at Tate Modern, London.

Gallery chronicle
by James Panero
On new media and the phenomenon of Loren Munk, whose work is on view at “New Year, New Work, New Faces” at Storefront Gallery, Brooklyn; “It’s All Good!!: Apocalypse Now” at Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn; “Paper 2011” at Janet Kurnatowski Gallery; “I Like the Art World and the Art World Likes Me” at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts; and “#TheSocialGraph: An Evolving Exploration of Social Media Art” at Outpost gallery, Queens.


Music

New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger


The Media

Madness & the media mind
by James Bowman
On rhetorical excess in the wake of the Tuscon shootings.


Books

Use value
by Barton Swaim

The con's age
by Brooke Allen

Cloud of unknowing
by Jeffrey Meyers

Cheeky promenade
by Colin Fleming

Just joking
by Alec Mouhibian


Notebook

I.M. John Gross, 1935–2011
by David Pryce-Jones
Remembering the life of the writer, editor & raconteur.