Morals & the servile mind
by Kenneth Minogue
On the diminishing moral life of our democratic age.
On the diminishing moral life of our democratic age.
On the provocative thinking of Simone Weil.
On a master’s lesson in true tolerance.
On Dickens’s world & the world he created.
A reappraisal of La Celestina.
On Lucy Prebble’s Enron, The Frog and Peach Theatre Company’s Macbeth, The Maids at Studio 660 & Norm Foster’s The Love List.
On “Matisse: Radical Invention 1913–1917” at the Art Institute of Chicago.
On “Palladio and his Legacy, a Transatlantic Journey” at the Morgan Library & Musuem.
On “Modern Art, Sacred Space: Motherwell, Ferber, and Gottlieb” at the Jewish Museum, New York.
On “Henri Cartier-Bresson:The Modern Century” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
On “Patricia Watwood: Portraits 2010” at Open Source, Brooklyn; “Michael Klein: Recent Paintings” at Arcadia Gallery & “Paul Resika: Recent Paintings” at Lori Bookstein Fine Art.
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On Dorothea Roschmann & Yefim Bronfman at Carnegie Hall, Carter Brey with the New York Philharmonic, Ricardo Muti’s moodiness, Jonathan Bliss at the 92st Y, an afternoon of Ravel at Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Armida, Lulu, Tosca & The Flying Dutchman at the Metropolitan Opera, & a Stravinsky festival led by Valery Gergiev.
On new media elite.
On Wait by C. K. Williams, Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty by Tony Hoagland, Simplify Me When I’m Dead by Keith Douglas, Rain by Don Paterson, White Egrets by Derek Walcott & Nox by Anne Carson
On The Fabrication of Aboriginal History, Volume Three: The Stolen Generations 1881-2008, by Keith Windschuttle
On Lord Acton’s Lectures on the French Revolution.
Notes & Comments
Everybody draws Mohammed
by The Editors
Cartooning for freedom of speech.
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by The Editors
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