Why the West?
by Roger Kimball
Upon the publication of Roger Scruton’s The West and the Rest.
Upon the publication of Roger Scruton’s The West and the Rest.
Considering Hossbawm’s new book Interesting Times: A Twentieth-Century Life.
Considering Pepys, upon the publication of Claire Tomalin’s new book Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self.
Drawing from an unpublished, May 1968, interview with Trilling.
On Caryl Churchill’s Far Away & Our Town.
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On Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Maxim Vengerov, Hilary Hahn, Alicia de Larrocha and the Tokyo String Quartet & the Met’s Aida.
On institutional claims of unbiased reporting of the Augusta Nationals.
A review of The Prophets, by Norman Podhoretz.
A review of Complete poems, by Charles Baudelaire, translated by Walter Martin.
A review of A New Kind of Science, by Stephen Wolfram
A review of Linnaeus: The Compleat Naturalist, by Wilfrid Blunt.
Notes & Comments
Brave new world watch
by The Editors
On gender-benders and the latest front in identity politics.
Stuck in the 1960s
by The Editors
On the “Borking” of Henry Kissinger.
Annals of transgression
by The Editors
On the case of a suicide mistaken for performance art.