The busybody: the Duc de Saint-Simon remembers
by Joseph Epstein
On the memoirs of Louis de Rouvroy, Duc de Saint-Simon, newly translated by Lucy Norton.
Features
Killing talk radio
by Brian C. Anderson
On the lurking threat to the freedom of the airwaves.
Lessons of the long-distance runner
by Anthony Daniels
On the impact and errors of Alan Sillitoe’s The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner.
Poems
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Dance
Ratmansky
by Laura Jacobs
On Alexei Ratmansky, Rabbit and Rogue at American Ballet Theatre, and Jupiter Symphony at Pennsylvania Ballet.
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Theater
Campaign season
by Brooke Allen
On Of Thee I Sing at Bard Summerscape, and The Understudy & Broke-ology at the Williamstown Theatre Festival.
Art
Waterworks
by Karen Wilkin
On “Take Your TIme: Olafur Eliasson” at the Museum of Modern Art and P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, “The New York City Waterfalls” along the East River, and other public art in the city.
Exhibition note
by Peter Pettus
On “Like Breath on Glass: Whistler, Inness and the Art of Painting Softly” at the Clark Art Institute, Williamstown.
Exhibition note
by Philip P. Betancourt
On “From the Land of the Labyrinth: Minoan Crete 3000–1100 B.C.” at the Onassis Cultural Center, New York.
Hudson River Schooled
by James Panero
On Jacob Collins’s Hudson River School for Landscape.
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Music
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On Showboat at Carnegie Hall, “Summertime Classics” with the New York Philharmonic, the International Keyboard Institute & Festival at Mannes, “Pedals and Pumps: A Festival of Organ Divas” at Trinity Church, Wall Street, and the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center.
The media
Martian chronicles
by James Bowman
On Niall Ferguson’s “The War of the World” on PBS.
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Books
Sentimental education
by James Piereson
On Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America’s Schools Back to Reality by Charles Murray and Education’s End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Human Life by Anthony Kronman.
Hard times
by John Gross
Degradation & disgrace
by Stephen Schwartz
On The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin’s Russia by Tim Tzouliadis.
Modern consolations
by Jeffrey Hart
On Invasions by Adam Kirsch.
out of interstitials
Notebook
I.M. Thomas M. Disch, 1940-2008
by David Yezzi
On the death of the author and poet.
Letters to the Editor
“Free speech in an age of jihad”
by Tom Blackburn
“Free speech in an age of jihad”: a response
by Stanley Kurtz
“Free speech in an age of jihad”: a response
by Andrew C. McCarthy
The visions of Orwell & Waugh
by David Pryce-Jones
On David Lebedoff’s The Same Man: George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh in Love and War.
Notes & Comments
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1918-2008
by The Editors
On the death of the great Russian writer.
The Georgian imperative
by The Editors
On the crisis in the Caucasus.
Welcome Standpoint
by The Editors
On the new British periodical.