Institutionalizing our demise: America vs. multiculturalism
by Roger Kimball
Tenth in the series “Lengthened Shadows.”
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Fiction chronicle
Fundamentalism isn’t the problem
by Kenneth Minogue
On the flaws of “fundamentalism” and the liberal internationalists.
The man who made Scouting
by Anthony Daniels
On Robert Baden-Powell and the founding of the Boy Scout movement.
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Theater
Raisin’ Cain
by Mark Steyn
On Kenny Leon’s revival of Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun & Sondheim and Weidman’s Asassins.
Art
Byzantium at the Metropolitan
by Karen Wilkin
On “Byzantium: Faith and Power, 1261-1557,” a complicated yet illuminating exhibition at the Metropolitan Musem of Art that “demands time and concentration of the visitor.”
Exhibition Note
by Michael J. Lewis
“Shock of the Old: Christopher Dresser” at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York, March 5-July 25, 2004.
Gallery chronicle
by James Panero
On “Constable’s Skies” at Salander-O’Reilly Galleries; “Guy Pene du Bois: Painter of Modern Life” at James Graham & Sons; “Eduardo Paolozzi: Works on Paper and Collage” at Flowers & “The Devonshire Inheritance: Five Centuries of Collecting at Chatsworth” at the Bard Graduate Center, New York.
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Music
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On the Mutter-Previn-Harrell Trio at Carnegie Hall, Rusalka & The Ring at the Metropolitan Opera House.
Concert Note
by Patrick J. Smith
On Sweeney Todd, Xerxes, Mourning Becomes Electra & Ermione at City Opera, New York.
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The media
Not made up but unmade
by James Bowman
On Bob Woodward’s new book, Plan of Attack and the ensuing “political psychobabble.
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Verse chronicle
Stouthearted men
by William Logan
Reviews of Selected Poems, by George Oppen, edited by Robert Creeley; Walking to Martha’s Vineyard, by Franz Wright; What Narcissism Means to Me, by Tony Hoagland; The Clerk’s Tale, by Spencer Reece; Buffalo Yoga, by Charles Wright & Collected Poems, by Philip Larkin, edited by Anthony Thwaite.
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Books
Constant’s middle path
by Daniel J. Mahoney
A review of Principles of Politics Applicable to All Governments, by Benjamin Constant, translated by Dennis O’Keeffe.
The oval Welshman
by David Pryce-Jones
A review of Dylan Thomas, by Andrew Lycett.
Blowin’ in the wind
by Eric Ormsby
A review of Dylan’s Visions of Sin, by Christopher Ricks.
The Napoleonic Code
by Marc M. Arkin
A review of The Age of Napoleon, by Alistair Horne.
So very Irish
by Brooke Allen
A review of The Collected Stories of Benedict Kiely, by Benedict Kiely.
Notebook
Making the grandest tour
by Robert Messenger
On Le Tour: a History of the Tour de France, 1923-2003, by Geoffrey Wheatcroft
Made in myth
by Tom Meaney
A review of The Locrian Maidens: Love and Death in Greek Italy, by James M. Redfield.
Notes & Comments
Pursuing moral equivalence
by The Editors
Melvin J. Lasky, 1920-2004
by The Editors
Some words of thanks
by The Editors