Expensive illiterates: victimhood & education
by Mark Steyn
The fifth in a series titled “Lengthened Shadows.”
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Leibniz & Job: The metaphysics of evil & the experience of evil
by Leszek Kolakowski
Booker vs. Goncourt; or, when silence is a duty
by Anthony Daniels
On the recipients of the Booker and Goncourt prizes.
Are emotions moral?
by F. H. Buckley
On the necessity of emotions to criminal justice.
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Art
Sculpture in Dallas
by Karen Wilkin
On the opening of the Nasher Sculpture Center.
Strange fruit
by James Panero
On John Currin at the Whitney Museum of American Art & Kiki Smith: Prints, Books and Things at the Museum of Modern Art, Queens.
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Music
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On the annual Richard Tucker Music Foundation concert, David Robertson, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Marcello Viotti, Stephen Hough & Deborah Voigt at the New York Philharmonic.
The media
The Mountains of Instead
by James Bowman
On Bush’s critics and the clarity of hindsight.
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Books
The achievement of Robert Lowell
by Richard Tillinghast
A review of Collected Poems, edited by Frank Bidart and David Gewanter.
Message from the gods
by Richard Garner
A review of Greek Gods, Human Lives: What We Can Learn From Myths, by Mary Lefkowitz.
The disaster parade
by Eric Ormsby
The Steiner school
by Paul Dean
A review of Lessons of the Masters, by George Steiner.
Evocations
by Herbert I. London
A review of Tributes: Personal Reflections on a Century of Social Research, by Irving Louis Horowitz.
Notebook
Hugh Kenner, 1923-2003
by Guy Davenport
On remembering the literary critic.
Notes & Comments
Life at the MLA
by The Editors
On the radical politics of the MLA.
Another judicial outrage
by The Editors
The media and Iraq
by The Editors
On the failure of the media to report on protests for peace in Iraq.
Speaking of Saddam…
by The Editors
On the capture of the Iraqi dictator and what should be done with him.