Reflections on the end of the century
by Hilton Kramer
On how we view the crimes of Communism
Features
Was World War I necessary?
by Keith Windschuttle
Upon the publication of The First World War by John Keegan & The Pity of War by Niall Ferguson.
Thomas Hardy & American poetry
by David Yezzi
On the British author’s transatlantic reach.
Mary Warnock: the uses & abuses of philosophy
by Jenny Teichman
Poems
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Letters to the Editor
¿O plomo o plata?
by Alexander Coleman
Letter from Mexico
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Theater
Badly awry
by Mark Steyn
On Kiss Me, Kate, James Joyce’s The Dead & Noel Coward
Art
New thoughts about the Renaissance in Venice
by Karen Wilkin
On “Renaissance Venice and the North: Crosscurrents in the Time of Bellini, Dürer, Titian,” at Palazzo Grassi, Venice.
Exhibition notes
by Roger Kimball
On Renoir to Rothko: The Eye of Duncan Phillips, at the Phillips Collection, Washington
Exhibition notes
by Daniel Kunitz
On Saul Steinberg: Drawing into Being at PaceWildenstein, New York
Exhibition note
by Daniel Kunitz
On “Robert Longo” at Dorfman Projects, New York
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The media
A child’s view of the world
by James Bowman
Concerning Naomi Wolf and feminism’s failings
Verse chronicle
Books
Unlimited nastiness
by David Pryce-Jones
Review of The Vices of Integrity: E. H. Carr 1892-1982 by Jonathan Haslam
Terminal self-pity
by Brooke Allen
A humane despot
by Stuart Ferguson
A review of Napoleon III: A Life by Fenton Bresler.
Notebook
At the point of extinction
by Paul Dean
Concerning secondary education in England
Notes & Comments
Remembering the Cold War
by The Editors
We told you so
by The Editors
Rename the Turner Prize
by The Editors