The hypocrisy of Noam Chomsky
by Keith Windschuttle
On the philosopher’s record of defending authoritarian regimes.
On the philosopher’s record of defending authoritarian regimes.
“The Dia Generation”: More silliness from The New York Times.
Reflections on growing up in a communist household.
On “O Jerusalem,” by A. R. Gurney.
On “Elie Nadelman: Sculptor of Modern Life” at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
On “Nell Blaine, Artist in the World: Works from the 1950s” at Tibor de Nagy.
On “Titian” at the National Gallery, London.
On the ACO’s Dennis Russell Davies, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s “Point-Counterpoint: Bach’s Art of the Fugue;” the opera “love couple” Angela Gheorghiu (soprano) and Roberto Alagna (tenor), and Mstislav Rostropovich’s “Slava and Friends” at the New York Philharmonic.
On a recent development in vocal performance.
Examining the case of Eason Jordan, the chief news executive of CNN who boasted to The New York Times of withholding news information in order to appease the former Iraqi regime.
A review of The Interpreter, by Suki Kim; Cosmopolis, by Don DeLillo; The Time of Our Singing, by Richard Powers; The Commissariat of Enlightenment, by Ken Kalfus & The Hazards of Good Breeding, by Jessica Shattuck.
A review of Gulag: A History, by Anne Applebaum.
A review of Newton: The Making of Genius, by Patricia Fara.
A review of Euripides. Vol. 5: Helen, Phoenician Women, Orestes. Vol. 6: The Bacchae, Iphigenia at Aulis, Rhesus, edited by David Kovacs.
A review of Life, Sex, and Ideas: The Good Life Without God, by A. C. Grayling.
Notes & Comments
A new generation’s fools
by The Editors
On the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe.
The end of the line?
by The Editors
On top literary theorists admitting the inanity of their craft.
Annals of the BBC
by The Editors
On the sympathies of the British Broadcasting Corporation.
Farewell to PR
by The Editors
On the closing of Partisan Review.