The manliness of Theodore Roosevelt
by Harvey Mansfield
An essay excerpted from his book on manliness forthcoming from Yale University Press.
Features
Betjeman: a “whim of iron”
by Brooke Allen
On “Betjeman’s place in the canon.”
Rubens at the Metropolitan
by Karen Wilkin
On “Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640): The Drawings” at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The difficult justice of Melville & Kleist
by Martin Greenberg
On the “issues of justice, especially social justice and law” in Billy Budd and Michael Kohlhaas.
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The irresistable rise of Trevor who?
by John Gross
On Mayor Livingstone’s embrace of Dr. al-Qaradawi & Islamophobia as “the most dangerous of current social evils.”
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Theater
Shriveled visions
by Mark Steyn
On David Margulies’s production of Brooklyn Boy at the Manhattan Theatre Club and Good Vibrations, the Beach Boys musical at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre, New York.
Art
Gallery chronicle
by James Panero
On “Cy Twombly: Fifty Years of Works on Paper” at the Whitney Museum; “John Walker: Collage” at Knoedler & Company & “George McNeil: Paintings” at Salander-O’Reilly Galleries.
Exhibition note
by Peter Campion
On “American Modern” at Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco.
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Music
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On Glenn Dicterow performing Aaron Jay Kernis’s Lament and Prayer in celebration of his twenty-fifth anniversary as concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic; Lauren Maazel conducting Fauré’s Pelléas et Mélisande also at the the New York Philharmonic; Vox Vocal Ensemble conducted by George Steel at Columbia University’s Low Library; performances by the Bolshoi Theatre at the World Economic Forum; & The Cleveland Orchestra directed by Franz Welser-Möst with soloist Radu Lupu.
The media
Style-section politics
by James Bowman
On the Style section’s “expectation of drama in politics: it’s so often bad drama.”
Books
Andre Malraux: Politicizing literature, fictionalizing politics
by David Pryce-Jones
A review of Malraux: A Life, by Olivier Todd, translated by Joseph West.
Which enlightenment?
by Keith Windschuttle
A review of The Roads to Modernity: The British, French, and American Enlightenments, by Gertrude Himmelfarb.
Misplaced guilt
by Andrew Roberts
Gangreene
by Jeffrey Meyers
A review of The Life of Graham Greene, Volume Three: 1955-1991, by Norman Sherry.
Serious imagination
by Noel Malcolm
A review of Imagining the Real: Essays on Politics, Ideology and Literature, by Robert Grant.
Shorter notices
by James Panero
On Reading Biography, by Carl Rollyson.
Shorter notices
by Stefan Beck
Stefan Beck on The Secrets Wars of Judi Bari, by Kate Coleman.
Notebook
Pundits & panjandrums
by Anthony Daniels
How being a pundit stands in the way of spelling out proper distinctions in a clear and honest manner.
Notes & Comments
Arthur Miller’s conscience
by The Editors
On the recent passing of the playwright and left-wing icon Arthur Miller.
Prozac for terrorists
by The Editors
On the release of an Algerian member of al Qaeda because of . . . depression?
Columbia’s Jewish problem
by The Editors
On the recent crisis over Columbia University’s professor of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures Joseph Massad and its continuing deterioration.
Full employment auf Deutsch
by The Editors
On “bureaucratic idiocy, real or imagined.”