Morals & the servile mind
by Kenneth Minogue
On the diminishing moral life of our democratic age.
Features
The shock philosopher
by Eric Ormsby
On the provocative thinking of Simone Weil.
Flaubert’s simple heart
by Anthony Daniels
On a master’s lesson in true tolerance.
The artful Dickens
by Alexandra Mullen
On Dickens’s world & the world he created.
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Rojas & the modern novel
by John Simon
A reappraisal of La Celestina.
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Theater
A monster for our times
by Kevin D. Williamson
On Lucy Prebble’s Enron, The Frog and Peach Theatre Company’s Macbeth, The Maids at Studio 660 & Norm Foster’s The Love List.
Art
Matisse in Chicago
by Karen Wilkin
On “Matisse: Radical Invention 1913–1917” at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Palladian lessons
by Marco Grassi
On “Palladio and his Legacy, a Transatlantic Journey” at the Morgan Library & Musuem.
Exhibition note
by Mario Naves
On “Modern Art, Sacred Space: Motherwell, Ferber, and Gottlieb” at the Jewish Museum, New York.
Exhibition note
by Nola Tully
On “Henri Cartier-Bresson:The Modern Century” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Gallery chronicle
by James Panero
On “Patricia Watwood: Portraits 2010” at Open Source, Brooklyn; “Michael Klein: Recent Paintings” at Arcadia Gallery & “Paul Resika: Recent Paintings” at Lori Bookstein Fine Art.
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Music
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On Dorothea Roschmann & Yefim Bronfman at Carnegie Hall, Carter Brey with the New York Philharmonic, Ricardo Muti’s moodiness, Jonathan Bliss at the 92st Y, an afternoon of Ravel at Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Armida, Lulu, Tosca & The Flying Dutchman at the Metropolitan Opera, & a Stravinsky festival led by Valery Gergiev.
The media
The elite beat
by James Bowman
On new media elite.
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Verse chronicle
Trampling out the new vintage
by William Logan
On Wait by C. K. Williams, Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty by Tony Hoagland, Simplify Me When I’m Dead by Keith Douglas, Rain by Don Paterson, White Egrets by Derek Walcott & Nox by Anne Carson
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Books
Empathy with us
by Gary Saul Morson
Two-headed Hitchens
by Christopher Caldwell
Abstract adventuring
by Martin Gardner
Aboriginal sin?
by Roger Sandall
On The Fabrication of Aboriginal History, Volume Three: The Stolen Generations 1881-2008, by Keith Windschuttle
Always to blame
by Brian C. Anderson
Sublunary concerns
by Callie Siskel
Notebook
Lord Acton’s revolution
by Gerald J. Russello
On Lord Acton’s Lectures on the French Revolution.
Notes & Comments
Everybody draws Mohammed
by The Editors
Cartooning for freedom of speech.
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