The cure for Bernard Shaw
by Anthony Daniels
On the crank medical theories of George Bernard Shaw.
On the crank medical theories of George Bernard Shaw.
On the oft-forgotten historian Tibor Szamuely.
On Ludwig Alois Friedrich von Köchel, compiler of the Köchelverzeichnis.
On the Victorian novelist and the moral question of defending the guilty.
On anti-Americanism and a visit to Scandinavia.
On the novelist and screenwriter Daniel Fuchs.
On Opus at 59E59, Xanadu at the Helen Hayes Theater, A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Shakespeare in the Park, and Frost/Nixon at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theater.
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On the legacy of post-painterly abstraction, occasioned by the exhibition and catalogue for “Color as Field: American Painting 1950–1975.”
On “Fakes and Forgeries: The Art of Deception” at the Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut.
On “Edward Hopper” at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
On “Masterpieces of Art: Five Centuries of Painting and Sculpture” at Salander-O’Reilly Galleries; “Michael Goldberg: New Paintings” at Knoedler & Company & “Duncan Hannah: Wanderlust” at James Graham & Sons.
On Haydn’s Armida, Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, Berlioz’s Benvenuto Cellini, and Weber’s Der Freischütz.
On humiliating punishments and the media’s obsession with hypocrisy.
On The Blair Years: Extracts from the Alistair Campbell
Diaries by Alistair Campbell.
On The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger by Jonathan Schell.
On The Edge of Evolution: The Search for the Limits of Darwinism by Michael J. Behe.
On Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore.
On Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun.
Notes & Comments
Dartmouth & the Brezhnev doctrine
by The Editors
On the Dartmouth administration’s plan to reassert control of the board of trustees.
At last! The Hamilton Institute
by The Editors
On the long-awaited execution of the much-maligned proposal at Hamilton College.