Harvard’s black comedy
On Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers, Black Studies & Cornel West.
Repealing history
On the controversy regarding the proposed statue to commemorate the firemen killed on September 11.
The slyer virus: the West's anti-westernism
by Mark Steyn
The sixth in a series titled “The survival of culture.”
George Santayana
by Roger Kimball
On the philosopher, occasioned by the publication of The Letters of George Santayana.
Guerrillophilia & the sincerely frivolous
by Anthony Daniels
On Senior Service: A Story of Riches, Revolution & Violent Death, by Carlo Feltrinelli.
France
by Dick Allen
Goin’ to Afghanistan
by Mark Steyn
On Homebody/Kabul, by Tony Kushner.
Paris in winter: thank heaven for Morandi
by Karen Wilkin
Giorgio Morandi at the Musée D'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.
Exhibition note
by Daniel Kunitz
Daniel Kunitz on “Inheriting Cubism: The Impact of Cubism on American Art,” at Hollis Taggert Galleries & Shahzia Sikander in “Conversations with Traditions” at Asia Society.
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On Valery Gergiev & the Kirov Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, Hansel und Gretel, by Humperdinck & Don Carlo, by Verdi at the Met, Vespers, by Rachmaninoff at Park Avenue’s Church of St. Ignatius Loyala & the New York Philharmonic playing Valses nobles et sentimentales, by Ravel, Dances of Galánta, by Kodály & Strauss’s Rosenkavalier Suite.
Opera in New York
by Patrick J. Smith
On performances at the Manhattan School of Music, the recent revivals of Die Meistersinger & Arabella & Strauss’s Die Frau ohne Schatten at the Met.
The charges & countercharges of self-righteous prigs
by James Bowman
On Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes how the Media Distorts the News, by Bernard Goldberg.
Orpheus with arsenic
by Eric Ormsby
A review of François Villon’s The Legacy & The Testament, translated by Louis Simpson.
Be brave
by Jeffrey Meyers
A review of Iris Murdoch: a life, by Peter Conradi.
Spheres and cubes
by James Franklin
A review of Mathematical Mountaintops, by John L. Casti.
Life in Yiddishland
by Sanford Pinsker
A review of Yiddish: A Nation of Words, by Miriam Weinstein.
Which God has failed
by Paul Hollander
On the tenacity of leftist ideology.