Letters to the Editor
Features
How civilizations fall
by Kenneth Minogue
On the role of radical feminism in the decline of civilization.
The perils of designer tribalism
by Roger Kimball
On the bane of “Third Worldism” and Roger Sandall’s book The Culture Cult.
Gardens for the sleeves
by Eric Ormsby
On Arabic literature.
Discovering LaRochefoucauld
by Theodore Dalrymple
On the great French master of the discomfiting aphorism.
Poems
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Theater
Policy paper plays
by Mark Steyn
On Boy Gets Girl, by Rebecca Gilman, Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom by David Zellnik & Saved by Edward Bond.
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Art
Rome away from Rome
by Karen Wilkin
On The Genius of Rome, 1592-1623 at the Royal Academy in London.
Exhibition note
by Daniel Kunitz
On John Walker: Time and Tides at Knoedler & Company.
Exhibition note
by Daniel Kunitz
On Nell Blaine: The Abstract Work at Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York.
Exhibition note
by Daniel Kunitz
On Jules Pascin: Important Works at Forum Gallery, New York.
Exhibition note
by Daniel Kunitz
On Edvard Munch Paintings: 1892-1917 at Mitchell-Innes & Nash Gallery, New York.
Music
Filling the Philharmonic’s podium
by Patrick J. Smith
On Kurt Masur’s achievements at the helm of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and Lorin Maazel’s prospects as his successor.
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On Mikhail Pletnev & the Russian National Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra, Roger Norrington conducting the Orchestra of St. Luke’s (with Emma Kirkby as soloist). Heidi Grant Murphy in recital & Così fan tutte at the Metropolitan Opera.
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The media
The shock of the few
by James Bowman
On the media’s attitude towards school shootings and pardons.
Books
From Englishmen to Americans
by Marc M. Arkin
A review of Inheriting the Revolution by Joyce Appleby
Authentically bland
by Alexander Coleman
A review of A Century of Recorded Music, by Timothy Day.
All perfectly logical
by John Derbyshire
Birth of the museum
by J. Duncan Berry
A review of The Ephemeral Museum: Old Master Paintings and the Rise of the Art Exhibition, by Francis Haskell & Museums in the German Art World: From the End of the Old Regime to the Rise of Modernism, by James J. Sheehan.
Notes & Comments
On “moral equivalence” . . .
by The Editors
On left-leaning scholarship in journals.
. . . and moral blindness
by The Editors
On NYU’s Alger Hiss website.