In defense of dissidence
by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Remarks delivered by Ayaan Hirsi Ali after she received The New Criterion’s fourth Edmund Burke Award for Service to Culture and Society.
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A paper dragon (with teeth)
by Allan H. Meltzer
On China’s fortunes and their relation to the rule of law.
Insubstantial pageants
by Paul Dean
On the misdirection of Shakespeare’s Globe.
Mixing memory & desire
by Dominic Green
On Patrick Modiano’s deliberate obscurantism.
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The other McCarthy
by Stephen Miller
A reassessment of Mary McCarthy’s antiwar activism.
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Reconsiderations
The master propagandist
by Henrik Bering
On Jacques-Louis David’s moral foibles.
Letters from the World
Trying too hard
by Anthony Daniels
On the degeneration of a once-handsome city.
Theater
Out of their minds
by Kyle Smith
On The Father at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre; Long Day’s Journey Into Night at the American Airlines Theatre; and American Psycho at the American Airlines Theatre.
Art
Rousseau at Musée d’Orsay
by Karen Wilkin
On “The Douanier Rousseau. Archaic Candour” at the Musée d’Orsay.
Exhibition note
by Christie Davies
On “Scottish Artists 1750–1900: From Caledonia to the Continent” at The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace.
Exhibition note
by Mario Naves
On “Munch and Expressionism” at The Neue Galerie.
Gallery chronicle
by James Panero
On “Philip Guston: Painter, 1957–1967” at Hauser & Wirth and “The Folk Art Collection of Elie and Viola Nadelman” at the New-York Historical Society.
Music
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On “The Romantic Viola” at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center; a world premiere at the New York Philharmonic; The Abduction from the Seraglio at the Metropolitan Opera; and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall.
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The media
House of cads
by James Bowman
On the rise of the crude in politics.
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Verse chronicle
Foreign affairs
by William Logan
On newly published poetry.
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Books
The inexorable truth
by Victor Davis Hanson
Golden years
by John Check
On Edward Dusinberre’s Beethoven for a Later Age: The Journey of a String Quartet.
Growing pains
by Timothy Congdon
Names & prices
by Benjamin Riley
Centurion of the century
by Charles Hill
Nadar’s highs and lows
by Leann Davis Alspaugh
In praise of subsidiarity
by James Piereson
Notebook
Hemingway & Alfred Flechtheim
by Jeffrey Meyers
On the tribulations of a towering art-world figure.
Notes & Comments
Sex & power
by The Editors
On the Obama administration’s lavatory overreach.
Meanwhile, in Europe
by The Editors
On The Spectator’s celebration of free speech.
A spot of light
by The Editors
On the reopening of the Yale Center for British Art.
A word of thanks
by The Editors