The hypocrisy of Noam Chomsky
by Keith Windschuttle
On the philosopher’s record of defending authoritarian regimes.
Features
Minimalist fantasies
by Roger Kimball
“The Dia Generation”: More silliness from The New York Times.
Can Europe happen?
by Leszek Kolakowski
Up from communism
by Anthony Daniels
Reflections on growing up in a communist household.
Poems
Theater
Gurney on a gurney
by Mark Steyn
On “O Jerusalem,” by A. R. Gurney.
Art
The house gods of Elie Nadelman
by James Panero
On “Elie Nadelman: Sculptor of Modern Life” at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Exhibition note
by James Panero
On “Nell Blaine, Artist in the World: Works from the 1950s” at Tibor de Nagy.
Exhibition note
by Mario Naves
On “Titian” at the National Gallery, London.
Music
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
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.
The rise of the vocal recital
by Patrick J. Smith
On a recent development in vocal performance.
Most Popular
The media
Superior to the truth
by James Bowman
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.
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Fiction chronicle
A safe preserve for sport
by Max Watman
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.
Books
Remembering the Gulag
by Hilton Kramer
A review of Gulag: A History, by Anne Applebaum.
The apple in our eye
by John Derbyshire
A review of Newton: The Making of Genius, by Patricia Fara.
Dark comedy
by Donald Lyons
A review of Euripides. Vol. 5: Helen, Phoenician Women, Orestes. Vol. 6: The Bacchae, Iphigenia at Aulis, Rhesus, edited by David Kovacs.
From little acorns
by John Simon
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.