The slyer virus: the West’s anti-westernism
by Mark Steyn
The sixth in a series titled “The survival of culture.”
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George Santayana
by Roger Kimball
On the philosopher, occasioned by the publication of The Letters of George Santayana.
Guerrillophilia & the sincerely frivolous
by Anthony Daniels
On Senior Service: A Story of Riches, Revolution & Violent Death by Carlo Feltrinelli.
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Goin’ to Afghanistan
by Mark Steyn
On Homebody/Kabul by Tony Kushner.
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Art
Paris in winter: thank heaven for Morandi
by Karen Wilkin
On Giorgio Morandi at the Musée D’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.
Exhibition note
by Daniel Kunitz
On Inheriting Cubism: The Impact of Cubism on American Art at Hollis Taggert Galleries & Shahzia Sikander in Conversations with Traditions at Asia Society.
Music
Opera in New York
by Patrick J. Smith
On performances at the Manhattan School of Music, the recent revivals of Die Meistersinger & Arabella & Strauss’s Die Frau ohne Schatten at the Met.
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On Valery Gergiev & the Kirov Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, Hansel und Gretel by Humperdinck & Don Carlo by Verdi at the Met, Vespers by Rachmaninoff at Park Avenue’s Church of St. Ignatius Loyala, the New York Philharmonic playing Valses nobles et sentimentales by Ravel, Dances of Galánta by Kodály & Strauss’s Rosenkavalier Suite.
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The media
The charges & countercharges of self-righteous prigs
by James Bowman
On Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes how the Media Distorts the News by Bernard Goldberg.
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Books
Orpheus with arsenic
by Eric Ormsby
A review of François Villon’s The Legacy & The Testament, translated by Louis Simpson.
Be brave
by Jeffrey Meyers
A review of Iris Murdoch: a life, by Peter Conradi.
Spheres and cubes
by James Franklin
A review of Mathematical Mountaintops, by John L. Casti.
Life in Yiddishland
by Sanford Pinsker
A review of Yiddish: A Nation of Words, by Miriam Weinstein.
Notebook
Which God has failed
by Paul Hollander
On the tenacity of leftist ideology.
Notes & Comments
Harvard’s black comedy
by The Editors
On Cornel West and the Black Studies Department.
Repealing history
by The Editors
On the FDNY and a 9/11 memorial sculpture.