Introduction: What was a liberal education?
by Roger Kimball
An introduction to our special issue on education.
An introduction to our special issue on education.
On comparing the university life then with now.
On the Alexander Hamilton Center affair at Hamilton College.
On the value of classical learning.
On the battle between learning for the sake of learning and learning for utility.
On requiring every child to be above average.
On In the Heights at the Richard Rodgers Theatre, Almost an Evening at the Theatres at 45 Bleecker Street, Parlour Song at the Atlantic Theater, and The Four of Us at Manhattan Theatre Club.
On “Gustave Courbet” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
On “Filippo Napoletano alla Corte di Cosimo II de’ Medici” at the Galleria Palatina in the Palazzo Pitti, Florence.
On “John Dubrow: Paintings” at Lori Bookstein Fine Art; “Wayne Thiebaud: The Figure” at Allan Stone Gallery; “Gregory Crewdson” at Luhring Augustine & “Lois Dodd: Landscapes and Structures, a Survey Exhibition” at Alexandre Gallery.
On the San Francisco Symphony at Carnegie Hall, Daniel Gaisford at Bargemusic, the Berlin Philharmonic’s Salzburg Easter Festival, Dmitri Hvorostovsky at Carnegie Hall, Julian Bliss at the Walter Reade Theater, and David Shifrin at the Rose Theater.
On Alfred Brendel at Carnegie Hall.
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On the proclivity to sling mud.
On Great Victorian Lives: An Era in Obituaries, edited by Ian Brunskill.
On The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume XIII, A Vision; The Original 1925 Version., edited by Catherine E. Paul & Margaret Mills.
On The Aeneid, translated by Sarah Ruden.
On Detective Story by Imre Kertész.
On Le roi se meurt by Eugène Ionesco and the philosophy of Owen Flanagan.
Notes & Comments
Art & ethics at Yale
by The Editors
On the Aliza Shvarts affair.
Libel tourism
by The Editors
On “Free Speech in an Age of Jihad,” the conference hosted by The New Criterion and the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.