The liberal capitulation
by Roger Kimball
Being the fifth in a series titled Reflections on a Cultural Revolution.
Features
Telling lies about history: “The Fifties” on television
by Hilton Kramer
On the series directed by Alex Gibney & Tracy Dahlby, based on the book of the same title by David Halberstam.
The destruction of Paris
by Katherine Knorr
On recent developments in Paris architecture & their harmful effects on the city.
Our debts to English history
by Keith Windschuttle
On Hope & Glory: Britain 1900–1990 by Peter Clarke & A Monarchy Transformed: Britain 1603–1714 by Mark
Kishlansky, two of the eight volumes in the Penguin History of Britain
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Europhiles & “Little Englanders”
by Roger Scruton
On English Common Law & the European Union
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Theater
Luvvies’ Labor lost
by Mark Steyn
On the Labor government’s cuts to theater funding
Art
Richard Diebenkorn at the Whitney
by Mario Naves
Exhibition notes
by Karen Wilkin
On Ten Paintings by Paul Cézanne Formerly in the Auguste Pellerine Collection at Sotheby’s, New York
Exhibition note
by Hilton Kramer
On Stanley Spencer: An English Vision at the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C.
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Music
Chicago’s new sound
by Lawrence Johnson
On the opening concert at Chicago’s Symphony Center
Concert note
by David Mermelstein
On Pelléas et Mélisande by Claude Debussy at the War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco
Concert note
by James F. Penrose
The media
Flipping our Whigs
by James Bowman
On “The Fifties,” The Kennedy Center Honors &Paul Simon’s Capeman
out of interstitials
Books
Horace transplanted
by D. S. Carne-Ross
Back in the loop
by Francis Morrone
Review of The Architects & the City: Holabird & Roche of Chicago by Robert Bruegmann
The irony of it all
by Marc M. Arkin
Review of Modern American Religion by Martin M. Marty
Abiding questions
by Paul Dean
Review of The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets by Helen Vendler & Shakespeare’s Sonnets edited by Katherine Duncan-Jones
Notebook
Peddler’s diary
by Mordecai Richler
On the author’s recent book tour
Notes & Comments
God Decentralized
by The Editors
On The New York Times Magazine’s special December 7 issue on religion
Privileging the contemporary
by The Editors
On the expansion of the Museum of Modern Art, New York