Introduction: utopia vs. nationhood
by Roger Kimball
An introduction to our symposium on the nation state.
Features
Islam, civilization & the nation state
by Daniel Johnson
On the interplay between militant Islam and the Western nation.
The nation & the intellectual Left
by Keith Windschuttle
On the changing relationship between the Left and the nation state.
Is the nation state threatened?
by Andrew C. McCarthy
On the looming perils to the nation state.
Pound’s depreciation
by Anthony Daniels
On whether Ezra Pound will stand the tests of time.
Poems
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Reconsiderations
Learning to read
by John Simon
A reflection on the early joys of the written word.
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Theater
Well-made & not-so-well-made
by Brooke Allen
On The Voysey Inheritance, Regrets Only, Vertical Hour, Company, and The Little Dog Laughed.
Art
Spain & Picasso
by Karen Wilkin
On “Spanish Painting from El Greco to Picasso” and “Picasso and American Art.”
Velázquez in London
by Christie Davies
On “Velázquez” at the National Gallery, London.
Gallery chronicle
by James Panero
On “Sanctuary Revealed: Restoration of an Architectural Icon” at the Herbert and Eileen Bernard Museum of Judaica; “Responses to Solitude” at the Terrence Cooke Building & “Biblical Art in a Secular Century” at the Museum of Biblical Art.
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Music
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On the Metropolitan Opera’s Barber of Seville, Don Carlo, and Madama Butterfly, the Miro Quartet at Alice Tully Hall, and a concert of Salzburg Festival participants at the Morgan Library.
The media
Delusions of “reality”
by James Bowman
On the media’s idea of “reality,” and of the President’s grasp thereof.
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Books
Donne’s “dialogue of one”
by Paul Dean
On Donne: The Reformed Soul by John Stubbs.
Homer & history
by Victor Davis Hanson
Chronicle of decline
by Francis Morrone
On Robert A. M. Stern’s New York 2000: Architecture and Urbanism between the Bicentennial and the Millennium.
An American Tory
by Gerald J. Russello
On The Essential Russell Kirk.
Dum dum da da
by Alexandra Mullen
On Stephen Banfield’s Jerome Kern.
Notebook
Eric Newby, 1919-2006
by Brooke Allen
On the late travel writer Eric Newby.
Notes & Comments
Hamilton capitulates
by The Editors
On the demise (for now) of the Alexander Hamilton Center at Hamilton College.
S. Lane Faison redux
by The Editors
A minor error reported.