Introduction: What was a liberal education?
by Roger Kimball
An introduction to our special issue on education.
Features
On the sadness of higher education
by Alan Charles Kors
On comparing the university life then with now.
The world we have lost: a parable on the academy
by Robert L. Paquette
On the Alexander Hamilton Center affair at Hamilton College.
The new learning that failed
by Victor Davis Hanson
On the value of classical learning.
Liberalism vs. humanism
by James Piereson
On the battle between learning for the sake of learning and learning for utility.
The age of educational romanticism
by Charles Murray
On requiring every child to be above average.
Poems
Most popular
Theater
Friends & neighbors
by Brooke Allen
On In the Heights at the Richard Rodgers Theatre, Almost an Evening at the Theatres at 45 Bleecker Street, Parlour Song at the Atlantic Theater, and The Four of Us at Manhattan Theatre Club.
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Art
Courbet at the Met
by Karen Wilkin
On “Gustave Courbet” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Filippo in Florence
by Marco Grassi
On “Filippo Napoletano alla Corte di Cosimo II de’ Medici” at the Galleria Palatina in the Palazzo Pitti, Florence.
Gallery chronicle
by James Panero
On “John Dubrow: Paintings” at Lori Bookstein Fine Art; “Wayne Thiebaud: The Figure” at Allan Stone Gallery; “Gregory Crewdson” at Luhring Augustine & “Lois Dodd: Landscapes and Structures, a Survey Exhibition” at Alexandre Gallery.
Music
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On the San Francisco Symphony at Carnegie Hall, Daniel Gaisford at Bargemusic, the Berlin Philharmonic’s Salzburg Easter Festival, Dmitri Hvorostovsky at Carnegie Hall, Julian Bliss at the Walter Reade Theater, and David Shifrin at the Rose Theater.
Concert note
by Ben Finane
On Alfred Brendel at Carnegie Hall.
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The media
Smear tactics
by James Bowman
On the proclivity to sling mud.
Books
With all due respect
by John Gross
On Great Victorian Lives: An Era in Obituaries, edited by Ian Brunskill.
Communicators
by Denis Donoghue
On The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume XIII, A Vision; The Original 1925 Version., edited by Catherine E. Paul & Margaret Mills.
Virgil up to speed
by Richard Garner
On The Aeneid, translated by Sarah Ruden.
Evil’s supreme logic
by Tess Lewis
On Detective Story by Imre Kertész.
Notebook
Ionesco & the limits of philosophy
by Anthony Daniels
On Le roi se meurt by Eugène Ionesco and the philosophy of Owen Flanagan.
Notes & Comments
Art & ethics at Yale
by The Editors
On the Aliza Shvarts affair.
Libel tourism
by The Editors
On “Free Speech in an Age of Jihad,” the conference hosted by The New Criterion and the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.