Adversary jurisprudence
by Robert Bork
The ninth in a series titled “The survival of culture.”
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G. C. Lichtenberg: a “spy on humanity”
by Roger Kimball
On the aphorist.
Hayek’s prophetic scepticism
by Kenneth Minogue
Upon the publication of Friedrich Hayek: A Biography, by Alan Ebenstein.
Gerhard Richter at MOMA
by Karen Wilkin
On “Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting.”
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Poems
Theater
Oklahoma?
by Mark Steyn
On the British invasion of American theater & Oklahoma!
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Art
Gallery chronicle
by Daniel Kunitz
On Balthus’s Midsummer Night’s Dream & L’Attente on view at C&M Arts; “Arshile Gorky: Portraits” at Gagosian Gallery & “H. W. Janson and the Legacy of Modern Art” at Salander-O’Reilly Galleries.
Exhibition note
by James Panero
On “Surrealism: Desire Unbound” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Exhibition note
by Mario Naves
On “H. C. Westerman” at the Hirshorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Music
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On Leon Fleisher, Masur’s valedictory concerts, Sly with Plácido Domingo at the Met, Anne Sofie von Otter at Alice Tully Hall, Ozawa & Rostropvich at Carnegie Hall with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Concert notes
by Patrick J. Smith
Patrick J. Smith on Parade at the Metropolitan Opera, Tristan und Isolde at Avery Fisher Hall.
The media
Intemperate political rhetoric
by James Bowman
On the refusal of the media to discern true from false, right from wrong.
Fiction chronicle
Guileless games
by Max Watman
A review of Spies, by Michael Frayn; A Multitude of Sins, by Richard Ford; The Dive From Clausen’s Pier, by Ann Packer; Everything is Illuminated, by Jonathan Safran Foer & Roscoe, by William Kennedy.
Books
Ego, vanity & megalomania
by Michael J. Lewis
A review of Frank Lloyd Wright & Lewis Mumford: Thirty Years of Correspondence, edited by Bruce Brook Pfeiffer & Robert Wojtowicz.
Step right up
by Alexandra Mullen
A review of Inventing the Victorians, by Matthew Sweet.
Tenebrous Teutons
by R. J. Stove
A review of German Opera: From Beginnings to Wagner, by John Warrack.
Eyes wide open
by Tess Lewis
A review of Night Games and Other Stories and Novellas, by Arthur Schnitzler, translated by Margret Schaefer.
Notes & Comments
The new Gleichschaltung
by the Editors
On the thought police in Brussels
Harvard’s black comedy, II
by the Editors
On Cornel West’s departure to Princeton.
Sun rise
by the Editors
On the debut of the New York Sun.