Sanctimony serving politics: the Florida fiasco
by Robert Bork
Reflections on the Supreme Court’s internvention in the battle for Florida’s electoral votes.
Reflections on the Supreme Court’s internvention in the battle for Florida’s electoral votes.
On Friedrich Schiller’s On the Aesthetic Education of Man.
Occasioned by the publication of The Element of Lavishness: Letters of Sylvia Townsend Warner and William Maxwell, The Music at Long Verney: Twenty Stories, and the reissuing of Lolly Willowes.
A review of “Manet: The Still-Life Paintings,” at the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore.
Translated by Martin Greenberg, with his introduction.
On Feelgood by Alistair Beaton, Deborah Warner’s version of Medea, Reba McEntire’s portrayal of Annie Oakley in Annie, Get Your Gun & Rosie O’Donnell in Seussical.
The Marilyn Horne Foundation master classes.
On Busoni’s Doktor Faust, at the Metropolitan Opera.
Jay Nordlinger on Jean-Yves Thibaudet, at Carnegie Hall.
On the vanishing distinction between politician and journalist, and the maintenance of celebrity.
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A review of A Life in the Twentieth Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917-1950, by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
A review of A Life of James Boswell, by Peter Martin & Boswell’s Presumptious Task, by Adam Sisman.
A review of The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, Volume 2: The Elegies, edited by Gary A. Stringer.
A review of Journal: 1935-1944 by Mihail Sebastian, translated by Radu Ioanid.
On The Selected Letters of Yvor Winters edited by R. L. Barth.
On In Fact: Essays on Writers & Writing, by Thomas Mallon.
Musings on the history of restaurants in France.
Notes & Comments
The tendency of our culture
by The Editors
On Arnold Toynbee’s analysis of “prole culture”