Introduction: The dictatorship of relativism
by Roger Kimball
An introduction to our symposium “The Dictatorship of Relativism: Who Will Stand Up for Western Values Now?”
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Guarding the boundaries
by Anthony Daniels
On the moral consequences of relativism (from “The Dictatorship of Relativism.”)
Relativism as political absolutism
by James W. Ceaser
On the dangers of relativism to the nation-state (from “The Dictatorship of Relativism.”)
Truth vs. equality
by Christie Davies
On the relativist threat to science (from “The Dictatorship of Relativism.”)
The temptation of Pope Benedict
by Daniel Johnson
On the Pontiff’s fight against relativism (from The Dictatorship of Relativism.)
Relativism: paving the road to radicalism
by Andrew C. McCarthy
On the misguided notion of “virtuous” jihad (from “The Dictatorship of Relativism.”)
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Dance
Prodigal son
by Laura Jacobs
On Jerome Robbins.
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Theater
Off the main stem
by Brooke Allen
On Farragut North at the Atlantic Theater Company, Prayer for My Enemy at Playwrights Horizon, and Mouth to Mouth at the New Group.
Art
Ireland’s romanticizer
by Christie Davies
On “Daniel Maclise: Romancing the Past” at the Crawford Gallery, Cork, Ireland, October 23, 2008 through February 14, 2009.
Exhibition notice
by Mario Naves
On “Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton” at The New Museum, New York.
Gallery chronicle
by James Panero
On “Frankenthaler at Eighty: Six Decades” at Knoedler & Co.
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Music
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On the Kirov Orchestra at Avery Fisher Hall, Richard Egarr and Levine & Barenboim at Weill Recital Hall, Weilerstein & Maazel and Elektra at the New York Philharmonic, the Damnation of Faust and Tristan und Isolde at the Metropolitan Opera, The Dream of Jacob’s Ladder at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, Piotr Anderszewski at Carnegie Hall, and Chanticleer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The media
The mystification of change
by James Bowman
On the media’s game of good and evil.
Books
Make way for bio-aesthetics
by John Derbyshire
Sensual Music
by Jeffrey Meyers
On Dancing in the Garden: A Bittersweet Love Affair with France and Words by the Water by William Jay Smith
Lincoln season
by Marc M. Arkin
On Tried By War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander-in-chief by James M. McPherson
Like father, like son
by Bruce S. Thornton
On Phillip II of Macedonia by Ian Worthington
Notes of a drink-man
by Andrew Stuttaford
The poet’s preceptor
by Molly McQuade
On White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson & Thomas Wentworth Higginson by Brenda Wineapple
Shorter notice
by Callie Siskel
On Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
Shorter notice
by Emily Esfahani Smith
On Arguing Conservatism: Four Decades of the Intercollegiate Review edited by Mark C. Henrie
Notes & Comments
On the first day of holiday . . .
by The Editors
On dismaying disappearances from Junior’s dictionary
The art market bubble
by The Editors
On the folly of speculating on contemporary art.