The West that wasn’t
by Andrew Roberts
On a world without Western civilization.
Features
Kropotkin’s dead goose
by Gary Saul Morson
On the limitations of anarchist thought.
Delight in Storrs
by Jonathan Gaisman
On the life of a colonial administrator.
The Maecenases
by Anthony Daniels
On the Pinault Collection at the Bourse de Commerce and the Morozov Collection at the Fondation Louis Vuitton.
Poems
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Reflections
Henry James & the Great War
by Stephen Miller
On the author’s final years in England.
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Reconsiderations
Hoosier prodigy
by Bruce Bawer
On Raintree County by Ross Lockridge, Jr.
Theater
Out with the new, in with the old
by Kyle Smith
On Company, The Music Man, and The Streets of New York.
Art
Egypt & Africa at The Met
by Karen Wilkin
On “The African Origin of Civilization” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Exhibition note
by Mario Naves
On “Joseph E. Yoakum: What I Saw” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Accessory to modernism
by James Panero
On “Sophie Taeuber-Arp: Living Abstraction” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Music
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On performances at Alice Tully Hall, Zankel Hall & the 92nd Street Y.
The media
Real science
by James Bowman
On problems with science in the media.
Books
Notebook
Wayne Thiebaud, 1920–2021
by Julia Friedman
On the life & work of the American painter.
Notes & Comments
Firing the canon
by the Editors
On the persistence of bad ideas.