The New Criterion
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March 1999 Volume 17, Number 7  

Notes & Comments

A war without armistice
On President Clinton's acquittal & the culture wars

A louse and a flea
On Christopher Hitchens


Features

The bright line: liberalism and religion
by Jean Bethke Elshtain
The seventh in a series titled “The betrayal of liberalism

What the Sixties wrought
by Roger Kimball
The Sixties: Cultural Revolution in Britain, France, Italy, and the United States, c.1958-c.1974 by Arthur Marwick

Thomas Mann in English
by Martin Greenberg
On the difficulties in translation

"The aesthetics of music"
by Horace Brock
An exchange between Horace W. Brock & Roger Scruton


Poems

Three Late Poems
by Alexander Coleman
On the poetry of Jorge Luis Borges

La moneda de hierr
by Eric McHenry
Jorge Luis Borges' poem, with matching translation by Eric McHenry

El alquimista
by Alastair Reed
Jorge Luis Borges' poem, with matching translation from Alastair Reid

Things that might have been
by Hoyt Rogers
Jorge Luis Borges' poem, with matching translation from Hoyt Rogers


Theater

The revenge of art
by Mark Steyn
Review of Death of a Salesman & other plays


Music

The meanspirited wunderkind
by David Mermelstein
Review of Powder Her Face by Thomas Adès, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music

Concert notes
by John Simon

Concert note
by Lawrence Johnson
On Roméo et Juliette, by Charles Gounod, at the Lyric Opera of Chicago


The Media

The throne of self-importance
by James Bowman
On Monica's Story & journalistic hubris


Books

After the fall
by Carl Rollyson
Review of Ex-Friends by Norman Podhoretz

We'll always have Paris
by Renee Winegarten
Review of A Corner in the Marais: Memoir of a Paris Neighborhood by Alex Karmel

Postponing & deferring
by Paul Dean
Review of The Warden: A Portrait of John Sparrow by John Lowe

Pretentious & hollow
by Brooke Allen
Review of Heavy Water & Other Stories by Martin Amis


Notebook

Value-free Harvard
by Roman Martinez
On the reaction at Harvard University to the Clinton scandals