Ayn Rand: engineer of souls
by Anthony Daniels
A critical account of the “Chernyshevsky of individualism.”
Features
Remembering Irving Kristol
by James Piereson
On the godfather of modern conservatism & his intellectual legacy.
Carlyle the wise
by Barton Swaim
On the political thought of Thomas Carlyle.
Frost’s notebooks: a disaster revisited
by William Logan
On Harvard’s half-baked reissue of The Notebooks of Robert Frost.
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The most hated man in New York
by Allen C. Guelzo
On ”Lincoln and New York” at the New-York Historical Society, New York.
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Theater
Sex, race & super-8
by Kevin D. Williamson
On Race & Oleanna by David Mamet, Ernest in Love at the Irish Repertory Theater & Jerk by Gisèle Vienne
Art
Moderns in the Hague
by Karen Wilkin
On “Cézanne, Picasso, Mondriaan” at the Geementsmuseum, The Hague, The Netherlands.
Exhibition note
by Mario Naves
On “Gabriel Orozco” at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Exhibition note
by Christie Davies
On “The Conversation Piece: Scenes of Fashionable Life” at The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London.
Gallery chronicle
by James Panero
On the Bushwick art scene, the “Inaugural Exhibition” at Storefront; “The Wells Street Gallery Revisited: Then and Now” at Lesley Heller Workspace; “Works on Paper” at Danese & “Jack Tworkov: True and False” at Mitchell-Innes & Nash.
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Music
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On Elektra, Carmen & Turandot at the Metropolitan Opera, Messiah at the New York Philharmonic, the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra at Carnegie Hall & Anthony McGill at the Metropolitan Museum.
The media
Unhappy is the land
by James Bowman
On the deleterious effects of political correctness on public policy.
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Books
Notebook
Unmasking the unmaskers
by Gary Saul Morson
On the uses & abuses of the Great Books.
Notes & Comments
Dhimmitude at the Met
by The Editors
On the Met’s new galleries dedicated to art from the “Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Late South Asia.”
The Malaysian alternative
by The Editors
On linguistic timorousness off the Timor coast.
The Hamilton follies cont’d
by The Editors
On the costs of contemporary college education.