The New Criterion
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October 2002 Volume 21, Number 2  

Notes & Comments

Campus "diversity"
On the politics of our professorate.

There she goes again
On Susan Sontag’s empty metaphors.

William Phillips 1907-2002
On the achievement and life of Partisan Review’s co-editor.


Features

The ethnocentrism of Clifford Geertz
by Keith Windschuttle
On our most famous anthropologist and the failures of the discipline.

Undressing the Victorians
by Roger Kimball
On Exposed: The Victorian Nude at the Brooklyn Museum.

Albert Speer: the good Nazi?
by David Pryce-Jones
Occasioned by Speer: The Final Verdict, by Joachim Fest, the author revisits his time with Hilter's favorite artist and wonders how Speer got away with murder.

Victor Hugo: the ghost in the pantheon
by Eric Ormsby
Considering Hugo upon his 200th year.

Dubai, Havana & choosing between evils
by Anthony Daniels
Book browsing in these unenlightened cities.


Poems

Like Water
by Elizabeth Spires

Back again
by Richard Tillinghast

Concordances
by Richard Tillinghast

As long as I have these saddle bags
by Richard Tillinghast


Theater

Good enough for Shakespeare?
by Mark Steyn
On the new adaptation of Rogers & Hart's Boys From Syracuse.


Art

"Don't draw the bug!"
by Martin Greenberg
On The City of K.-Franz Kafka and Prague at the Jewish Museum.

Gallery chronicle
by Daniel Kunitz
On Leland Bell at Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, and Georg Baselitz at Pace-Wildenstein.


Music

Clever, entertaining, romantic
by Jay Nordlinger
On the big joys of "little opera."


The Media

Debating Iraq
by James Bowman
On the most talked-about war, or non-war, in history.


Books

The chastened liberal
by Daniel Mahoney
A review of The Dawn Of Universal History by Raymond Aron.

The gypsy balladeer
by Alexander Coleman
A review of Collected Poems, by Federico Garcia Lorca.

Big Ben
by Marc Arkin
A review of Benjamin Franklin by Edmund Sears Morgan.

A brighter, clearer light
by Tess Lewis
A review of The Author of Himself: The Life of Marcel Reich-Ranicki, by Marcel Reich-Ranicki, translated by Barbara Bray.

Profound perplexity
by Francis Morrone
A review of The Theory of Decorative Art: An Anthology of European & American Writings, edited by Isabelle Frank.


Notebook

The apotheosis of Stephen Jay Gould
by Paul Gross