“The Closing of the American Mind” at 20
by James Piereson
On Allan Bloom the teacher, taking on the listless realms of academe.
Features
“Openness” & “The Closing of the American Mind”
by Roger Kimball
On the role of ideas of “tolerance” in the intellectual decline.
Twenty years ago today
by Mark Steyn
On rock music’s oppressive rule over society.
Another view: America’s flaw or Bloom’s?
by Heather Mac Donald
On a number of the potential flaws in Bloom’s “The Closing of the American Mind.”
Modernism then & now
by John Gross
On Peter Gay’s Modernism: The Lure of Heresy.
Who shall ’scape whipping?
by Anthony Daniels
On Ted Honderich’s strange thoughts on punishment.
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Dance
Wall of thorns
by Laura Jacobs
On American Ballet Theatre’s Sleeping Beauty at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York.
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Theater
Faded virtues
by Brooke Allen
On Iphegenia 2.0 at the Signature Theater, The Misanthrope at New York Theater Workshop, The Dining Room at the Keen Company, Dividing the Estate at Primary Stages, and The Seagull at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Art
Dutch treat
by Marco Grassi
On “The Age of Rembrandt: Dutch Painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Exhibition note
by Nola Tully
On “Depth of Field: Modern Photography at the Metropolitan” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Gallery chronicle
by James Panero
On Salander-O’Reilly, “Thornton Willis, Paintings: 40 Years” at Sideshow Gallery & “William Bailey on Canvas” at Betty Cuningham Gallery.
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Music
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On Margaret Garner at City Opera, an “Hommage à Cziffra” at Yamaha Artistic Services, and Turandot at the Atlanta Opera.
The media
Ken Burns’s war
by James Bowman
On the latest outpouring of sentimental self-importance from the celebrity documentary-maker.
Books
A mind emparadised
by Eric Ormsby
Partisan & passionate
by Karen Wilkin
A review of A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932 (Vol 3) by John Richardson.
Making the case
by Tracy Lee Simmons
On Carpe Diem: How to Become a Latin Lover by Harry Mount.
Monstrous passions
by Jeffrey Meyers
On Travels with Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuscinski.
The art of darkness
by Stefan Beck
On Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson.
They’re the top
by Dan Brown
On The House That George Built: With a Little Help from Irving, Cole, and a Crew of About Fifty by Wilfred Sheed.
“I am folk music”
by R. J. Stove
Shorter notice
by Ellie Thermansen
On The Essential Feminist Reader, edited by Estelle B. Freedman.
Shorter notice
by Callie Siskel
On The Theatre of Illusion by Pierre Corneille, translated by Richard Wilbur.
Notebook
Jacques Barzun at 100
by Jeffrey Hart
On the centenary of the celebrated historian.
Notes & Comments
Will there always be an England?
by The Editors
On worrying signs of modern Britain.