The New Criterion
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November 2002 Volume 21, Number 3  

Notes & Comments

Academic freedom for me but not for thee
On the sexual circus of pornstar/activist Annie Sprinkle.

Rhetorical incontinence
On the antics of New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd.


Features

Failures of nerve
by Roger Kimball
Introducing a special section, occasioned by the conference on anti-Americanism that was held in Tunbridge Wells, England, October 3-4, 2002.

The European project
by Gerald Frost
Wondering where Europe went wrong-”and asking if the European Union will get it right.

The politics of envy
by Paul Hollander
Considering the root causes of intellectualized anti-Americanism.

Retreats into fantasy
by David Pryce-Jones
On historical misunderstandings between Islam and the West.

Yearning to be liked
by John Derbyshire
On Anti-Americanism in the far east.

Dubious moralisms
by Digby Anderson
Michael Mosbacher & Digby Anderson on the new anti-Capitalist/anti-globalization movement.

Johnson, Boswell & the biographer's quest
by Jeffrey Meyers


Poems

Nights
by Harvey Shapiro

Vessel
by Valerie Wohlfeld

Erebus
by Valerie Wohlfeld


Theater

"Out" at the old ballgame
by Mark Steyn
On Take Me Out.


Art

Erotic prudery
by James Panero
On the sexual politics of Jean-Baptiste Greuze.

Exhibition note
by Mario Naves
On Stuart Davis at the Morgan Library.


Music

New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On the new season.

Concert note
On Galileo Galilei, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York


The Media

The scandal lobby
by James Bowman
On David Bonior and Jim McDermott's trust of Saddam Hussein over President Bush.


Fiction Chronicle

Suffer the children
by Max Watman
A review of Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides; The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold; Prague, by Arthur Phillips; Twelve: A Novel, by Nick McDonell; The Little Friend, by Donna Tartt & Summerland, by Michael Chabon.


Books

Dismantling the law
by Robert Bork
A review of Courting Disaster: The Supreme Court And The Unmaking Of American Law by Martin Garbus.

Devouring egomania
by Brooke Allen
A review of A Daring Young Man: A Biography of William Saroyan, by John Legget.

A ramshackle polemic
by Timothy Congdon
A review of Globalization & it’s discontents, by Joseph E. Stiglitz.

Perfection at a price
by John Gross
A review of Max Beerbohm: A Kind of Life, by N. John Hall.