The ethnocentrism of Clifford Geertz
by Keith Windschuttle
On our most famous anthropologist and the failures of the discipline.
On our most famous anthropologist and the failures of the discipline.
On “Exposed: The Victorian Nude,” at the Brooklyn Museum.
On occasioned by Speer: The Final Verdict, by Joachim Fest, the author revisits his time with Hilter’s favorite artist and wonders how Speer got away with murder.
Considering the French author on his two-hundredth birthday.
Book browsing in these unenlightened cities.
On the new adaptation of Rogers & Hart’s Boys From Syracuse.
On “The City of K.: Franz Kafka and Prague” at the Jewish Museum.
On Leland Bell at Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, and Georg Baselitz at Pace-Wildenstein.
On the big joys of “little opera.”
On the most talked-about war, or non-war, in history.
A review of The Dawn Of Universal History by Raymond Aron.
A review of Benjamin Franklin by Edmund Sears Morgan.
A review of The Theory of Decorative Art: An Anthology of European & American Writings, edited by Isabelle Frank.
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Notes & Comments
Campus “diversity”
by The Editors
On the politics of our professorate.
There she goes again
by The Editors
On Susan Sontag’s empty metaphors.
William Phillips 1907-2002
by The Editors
On the achievement and life of Partisan Review’s co-editor.