Brave new world watch
On gender-benders and the latest front in identity politics.
Stuck in the 1960s
On the "Borking" of Henry Kissinger.
Annals of transgression
On the case of a suicide mistaken for performance art.
Why the West?
by Roger Kimball
Upon the publication of Roger Scruton's The West and the Rest.
Eric Hobsbawm: lying to the credulous
by David Pryce-Jones
Considering Hossbawm’s new book Interesting Times: A Twentieth-Century Life.
The irrepressible Pepys
by Brooke Allen
Considering Pepys, upon the publication of Claire Tomalin's new book Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self.
Lionel Trilling & the crisis at Columbia
by Jeffrey Meyers
Drawing from an unpublished, May 1968, interview with Trilling.
Running on empty
by Mark Steyn
On Caryl Churchill's Far Away & Our Town.
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Maxim Vengerov, Hilary Hahn, Alicia de Larrocha and the Tokyo String Quartet & the Met's Aida.
“Media bias” revisited
by James Bowman
On institutional claims of unbiased reporting of the Augusta Nationals.
Who reads Mencken now?
by Hilton Kramer
A review of The Skeptic: A Life Of H. L. Mencken, by Terry Teachout.
The prophets today
by Hadley Arkes
A review of The Prophets, by Norman Podhoretz.
Whispered disclosures
by Eric Ormsby
A review of Complete poems, by Charles Baudelaire, translated by Walter Martin.
Love and error
by Gerald J. Russello
A review of Ovid: The Poet and His Work, by Niklas Holzberg.
Big science
by James Franklin
A review of A New Kind of Science, by Stephen Wolfram
Master taxonomist
by Guy Davenport
A review of Linnaeus: The Compleat Naturalist, by Wilfrid Blunt