Intellectual frontiers
Roger Bowen & The New York Times defend SUNY's Revolting Behavior & Subject to Desire conferences
Meanwhile, back at Yale . . .
More about the Bass grant & Western culture at Yale
The marriage of Marx and Freud
by Roger Kimball
The fourth in a series titled Reflections on a cultural revolution
The blacklist as history
by Ron Radosh
On the fiftieth anniversary of the Hollywood blacklist
Nabokov in America
by Donald Lyons
On the three-volume Vladimir Nabokov published by the Library of America
Muddled "marivaudage"
by Mark Steyn
On The Triumph of Love & other plays
Music note
by John Simon
On Opera & Politics: From Monteverdi to Menze by John Bokina
Music note
by David Mermelstein
On Manon by Jules Massenet, at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York
The morality of the wasteland
by James Bowman
On Ellen DeGeneres & the television as a perceived instrument of moral influence
Violating the cardinal rules
by Brooke Allen
Review of Postmodern American Fiction: A Norton Anthology edited by Paula Geyh, Fred G. Leebron & Andrew Levy
Blasts from the past
by James Wolcott
Review of Underworld by Don DeLillo
Substitutes for truth
by Jenny Teichman
Review of Belief & Resistance: Dynamics of Contemporary Intellectual Controversy by Barbara Herrnstein Smith
Postwar solipsisms
by Tess Lewis
Reviews of The Reader by Bernhard Schlink, translated by Caro Brown Janeway & Last Trolley from Beethovenstraat by Grete Weil, translated by John Barret
Letter from London: Charles Saatchi's YBAs
by David Cohen
On Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection at the Royal Academy of Arts, London