June 2014 | The New Criterion

Notes & Comments

Shut up, they explained

by the Editors

On the “disinvitation” of commencement speakers, trigger warnings for classic literature, and privilege.

Features

The law & Richard Epstein

by Hadley Arkes

Analyzing the views of the distinguished legal scholar Richard Epstein.

Artists & politics

by Donald Kagan

A lecture delivered by Donald Kagan after he received the second Edmund Burke Award for Service to Culture and Society.

Reclaiming Madison

by James Piereson

A new biography of James Madison hopes to change the way we remember America’s fourth President.

Conservatives & higher ed

by Steven F. Hayward

A look at what has caused the dearth of conservatives in higher education, and why we should be concerned.

Poems

How you might approach a foal:

Letters from the World

World history, local level

by James Franklin

How Latvia beat the odds after the Cold War.

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Reconsiderations

Gatsby meets Macomber

by Jeffrey Meyers

Decoding the parallels between Fitzgerald’s Gatsby and Hemingway’s “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber.”

Theater

Great depressions

by Kevin D. Williamson

Reviews of Of Mice and Men, The Velocity of Autumn, The Cripple of Inishmaan.

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Art

Degenerate art in New York

by Karen Wilkin

On “Degenerate Art: The Attack on Modern Art in Nazi Germany, 1937” at the Neue Galerie, New York.

Cast in a bad light

by Daniel Grant

The art market and its problem with reproductions.

Gallery chronicle

by James Panero

On “Peak Bushwick” and Bushwick Open Studios.

Music

New York chronicle

by Jay Nordlinger

On recent performances including Christoph von Dohnányi, Stephen Hough, the Metropolitan Opera, and more.

The media

Some eminent utopians

by James Bowman

On data-obsession and Thomas Piketty’s Capital.

Verse chronicle

Reviews of Caribou , by Charles Wright; Directing Herbert White, by James Franco; The Road to Emmaus, by Spencer Reece; Roget’s Illusion, by Linda Bierds; and Broken Hierarchies: Poems, 1952–2012, by Geoffrey Hill, edited by Kenneth Haynes.