How civilizations fall
by Kenneth Minogue
On the role of radical feminism in the decline of civilization.
The perils of designer tribalism
by Roger Kimball
On the bane of “Third Worldism” and Roger Sandall's book The Culture Cult.
Discovering LaRochefoucauld
by Theodore Dalrymple
Lessons from the great French master of the discomfiting aphorism.
Policy paper plays
by Mark Steyn
On Boy Gets Girl, by Rebecca Gilman, Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom by David Zellnik & Saved by Edward Bond.
Rome away from Rome
by Karen Wilkin
On “The Genius of Rome” show at the Royal Academy, London.
Exhibition note
by Daniel Kunitz
On John Walker: Time and Tides,” at Knoedler & Company.
Exhibition note
by Daniel Kunitz
On “Nell Blaine: The Abstract Work,” at Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York.
Exhibition note
by Daniel Kunitz
On “Jules Pascin: Important Works,” at Forum Gallery, New York.
Exhibition note
by Daniel Kunitz
On “Edvard Munch Paintings 1892-1917,” at Mitchell-Innes & Nash Gallery, New York.
Filling the Philharmonic's podium
by Patrick J. Smith
On Kurt Masur’s achievements at the helm of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and Lorin Maazel’s prospects as his successor.
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On Mikhail Pletnev & the Russian National Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra, Roger Norrington conducting the Orchestra of St. Luke’s (with Emma Kirkby as soloist). Heidi Grant Murphy in recital & Così fan tutte at the Metropolitan Opera.
The shock of the few
by James Bowman
On the deleterious effects of the media’s coverage of school shootings and other violent events and the aftermath of Bill Clinton’s pardoning Marc Rich.
From Englishmen to Americans
by Marc M. Arkin
A review of Inheriting the Revolution, by Joyce Appleby.
Authentically bland
by Alexander Coleman
A review of A Century of Recorded Music, by Timothy Day.
All perfectly logical
by John Derbyshire
A review of The Universal Computer: The Road from Leibniz to Turing, by Martin Davis and The Computer & the Brain, by John von Neumann.
Birth of the museum
by J. Duncan Berry
A review of The Ephemeral Museum: Old Master Paintings and the Rise of the Art Exhibition, by Francis Haskell & Museums in the German Art World: From the End of the Old Regime to the Rise of Modernism, by James J. Sheehan.