A new generation's fools
On the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe.
The end of the line?
On top literary theorists admitting the inanity of their craft.
Annals of the BBC
On the sympathies of the British Broadcasting Corporation.
Farewell to PR
On the closing of Partisan Review.
Minimalist fantasies
by Roger Kimball
“The Dia Generation”: More silliness from The New York Times.
Up from communism
by Anthony Daniels
Reflections on growing up in a communist household.
Gurney on a gurney
by Mark Steyn
On "O Jerusalem," by A. R. Gurney.
Exhibition note
by James Panero
On “Nell Blaine, Artist in the World: Works from the 1950s” at Tibor de Nagy, New York.
Exhibition note
by Mario Naves
On “Titian” at the National Gallery, London.
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On the ACO’s Dennis Russell Davies, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s “Point-Counterpoint: Bach’s Art of the Fugue;” the opera “love couple” Angela Gheorghiu (soprano) and Roberto Alagna (tenor), and Mstislav Rostropovich’s “Slava and Friends” at the New York Philharmonic.
Superior to the truth
by James Bowman
Examining the case of Eason Jordan, the chief news executive of CNN who boasted to The New York Times of withholding news information in order to appease the former Iraqi regime.
A safe preserve for sport
by Max Watman
A review of The Interpreter, by Suki Kim; Cosmopolis, by Don DeLillo; The Time of Our Singing, by Richard Powers; The Commissariat of Enlightenment, by Ken Kalfus & The Hazards of Good Breeding, by Jessica Shattuck.
Remembering the Gulag
by Hilton Kramer
A review of Gulag: A History, by Anne Applebaum.
The apple in our eye
by John Derbyshire
A review of Newton: The Making of Genius, by Patricia Fara.
Dark comedy
by Donald Lyons
A review of Euripides. Vol. 5: Helen, Phoenician Women, Orestes. Vol. 6: The Bacchae, Iphigenia at Aulis, Rhesus, edited by David Kovacs.
From little acorns
by John Simon
A review of Life, Sex, and Ideas: The Good Life Without God, by A. C. Grayling.