Introduction: saving remnants
by Roger Kimball
An introduction to our symposium on the future of conservatism in Britain and America.
Features
Conservatism & the morality of impulse
by Kenneth Minogue
On the challenges of responding to modernist morality.
The conservative response to Islam
by Daniel Johnson
On how the West should react to the growing strength of Islam.
The end of discretion
by Andrew C. McCarthy
On the judicial straitjacketing of the executive branch in America.
The travails of a secular priesthood
by Jeremy Black
On the place of military history in the American academy.
The conservatism of the future
by John O’Sullivan
On what the direction conservatism must take to regain the ascendancy.
Poems
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Theater
Rock around the bloc
by Brooke Allen
On Rock ’n’ Roll at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, The Farnsworth Invention at the Music Box Theatre, Pumpgirl at the Manhattan Theatre Club, and Speech & Debate at the Roundabout Theater.
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Art
Martin Puryear at MOMA
by Karen Wilkin
On “Martin Puryear” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Gallery chronicle
by James Panero
On “Christopher Wilmarth” at the Betty Cuningham Gallery.
Music
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On the St. Lawrence String Quartet at the New York Society for Ethical Culture, members of the Berlin Philharmonic at the Knickerbocker Club, the Salzburg Festival at the Morgan Library, and the Kirov Orchestra & Chorus at Carnegie Hall.
The media
Sense of superiority
by James Bowman
On the unreal world which journalists inhabit.
Books
Enough Said
by David Pryce-Jones
Mah-velous, dah-ling
by Mark Steyn
On The Letters of Noël Coward, edited by James Sexton.
Flashes of lightning
by Eric Ormsby
Play on
by John Simon
On The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, by Alex Ross.
Luminous details
by Paul Dean
On Ezra Pound: Poet, Volume 1: The Young Genius 1885-1920, by A. David Moody.
Notes & Comments
The “wisdom” of Silenus
by The Editors
On the supposed harm of actually existing.
England, an epitaph
by The Editors
On Great Britain’s accession to the Treaty of Lisbon.