Institutionalizing our demise: America vs. multiculturalism
by Roger Kimball
Tenth in the series "Lengthened Shadows."
Fundamentalism isn't the problem
by Kenneth Minogue
On the flaws of “fundamentalism” and the liberal internationalists.
The man who made Scouting
by Anthony Daniels
On Robert Baden-Powell and the founding of the Boy Scout movement.
Raisin' Cain
by Mark Steyn
On Kenny Leon’s revival of Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun & Sondheim and Weidman’s Asassins.
Byzantium at the Metropolitan
by Karen Wilkin
On “Byzantium: Faith and Power, 1261-1557,” a complicated yet illuminating exhibition at the Metropolitan Musem of Art that “demands time and concentration of the visitor.”
Exhibition Note
by Michael J. Lewis
"Shock of the Old: Christopher Dresser" at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York, March 5-July 25, 2004.
Gallery chronicle
by James Panero
On Constable's Skies at Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York; Guy Pene du Bois: Painter of Modern Life at James Graham & Sons, New York; Eduardo Paolozzi: Works on Paper and Collage at Flowers, New York & The Devonshire Inheritance: Five Centuries of Collecting at Chatsworth at the Bard Graduate Center, New York.
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On the Mutter-Previn-Harrell Trio at Carnegie Hall, Rusalka & The Ring at the Metropolitan Opera House.
Concert Note
by Patrick J. Smith
On Sweeney Todd, Xerxes, Mourning Becomes Electra & Ermione at City Opera, New York.
Not made up but unmade
by James Bowman
On Bob Woodward’s new book, Plan of Attack and the ensuing “political psychobabble.
Stouthearted men
by William Logan
Reviews of Selected Poems, by George Oppen, edited by Robert Creeley; Walking to Martha’s Vineyard, by Franz Wright; What Narcissism Means to Me, by Tony Hoagland; The Clerk’s Tale, by Spencer Reece; Buffalo Yoga, by Charles Wright & Collected Poems, by Philip Larkin, edited by Anthony Thwaite.
Constant's middle path
by Daniel Mahoney
A review of Principles of Politics Applicable to All Governments, by Benjamin Constant, translated by Dennis O'Keeffe.
The oval Welshman
by David Pryce-Jones
A review of Dylan Thomas, by Andrew Lycett.
Blowin' in the wind
by Eric Ormsby
A review of Dylan’s Visions of Sin, by Christopher Ricks.
The Napoleonic Code
by Marc Arkin
A review of The Age of Napoleon, by Alistair Horne.
So very Irish
by Brooke Allen
A review of The Collected Stories of Benedict Kiely, by Benedict Kiely.
Made in myth
by Tom Meaney
A review of The Locrian Maidens: Love and Death in Greek Italy, by James M. Redfield.
Making the grandest tour
by Robert Messenger
On Le Tour: a History of the Tour de France, 1923-2003, by Geoffrey Wheatcroft