March 2005
Arthur Miller’s conscience
On the recent passing of the playwright and left-wing icon Arthur Miller.
On the recent passing of the playwright and left-wing icon Arthur Miller.
On the release of an Algerian member of al Qaeda because of . . . depression?
On the recent crisis over Columbia University’s professor of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures Joseph Massad and its continuing deterioration.
On “bureaucratic idiocy, real or imagined.”
An essay excerpted from his book on manliness forthcoming from Yale University Press.
On “Betjeman’s place in the canon.”
On “Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640): The Drawings” at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
On the “issues of justice, especially social justice and law” in Billy Budd and Michael Kohlhaas.
On Mayor Livingstone’s embrace of Dr. al-Qaradawi & Islamophobia as “the most dangerous of current social evils.”
On David Margulies’s production of Brooklyn Boy at the Manhattan Theatre Club and Good Vibrations, the Beach Boys musical at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre, New York.
On “Cy Twombly: Fifty Years of Works on Paper” at the Whitney Museum; “John Walker: Collage” at Knoedler & Company & “George McNeil: Paintings” at Salander-O’Reilly Galleries.
On “American Modern” at Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco.
On Glenn Dicterow performing Aaron Jay Kernis’s Lament and Prayer in celebration of his twenty-fifth anniversary as concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic; Lauren Maazel conducting Fauré’s Pelléas et Mélisande also at the the New York Philharmonic; Vox Vocal Ensemble conducted by George Steel at Columbia University’s Low Library; performances by the Bolshoi Theatre at the World Economic Forum; & The Cleveland Orchestra directed by Franz Welser-Möst with soloist Radu Lupu.
On the Style section’s “expectation of drama in politics: it’s so often bad drama.”
How being a pundit stands in the way of spelling out proper distinctions in a clear and honest manner.
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