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Fans of the New Criterion, the Harper's for cultural elites bending right, will likely recognize most of the contributors to this anthology, which, like its parent publication, prefers to fortify its criticism with a healthy (if not liberal) dose of eulogy. As such, this selection combines politically self-conscious praise for American high modernism in architecture, poetry, and war with mournful longing for the very nearly departed in American society. Some are more indignant than others. Coeditor Kimball's "Institutionalizing Our Demise," a Samuel Huntington-esque^B appeal to reverse the centrifugal forces of multiculturalism, spits more bile than Jay Nordlinger's assessment of the state of classical music, which suffers primarily from a glut of enthusiastic, qualified performers. Robert Bork's piece on recent Supreme Court jurisprudence, likewise committed to provocative gloominess, will resonate with strict constructionists and social conservatives. It preaches to the choir at times, but alongside all its exhortations and laments shine some thought-provoking insights, such as theologian David B. Hart's intuitive musings on the unique ecstasies of American religion, perhaps this selection's best essay. Brendan Driscoll
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The lengthening shadow of Roger Kimball and Hilton Kramer is undeniable and so is the learning of the contributors. -- William F. Buckley
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ON SEPTEMBER 2, 1898 at Omdurman on the banks of the Nile just outside of Khartoum, an Anglo-Egyptian army under the command of General Herbert Horatio Kitchener faced a Sudanese army led by the Khalifa, the local leader of the fundamentalist Wahabbist sect of Islam. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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United States, New York, Supreme Court, British Empire, Professor Vendler, Air Force, Bill of Rights, Middle East, Marilyn Horne, Soviet Union, World Trade Center, Carnegie Hall, White House, American Christianity, Art Deco, Charles Street, Cold War, Gulf War, Marianne Moore, Network-Centric Warfare, New Haven, Niall Ferguson, Oglala Lakota, Rita Dove, Saddam Hussein New!
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ON SEPTEMBER 2, 1898 at Omdurman on the banks of the Nile just outside of Khartoum, an Anglo-Egyptian army under the command of General Herbert Horatio Kitchener faced a Sudanese army led by the Khalifa, the local leader of the fundamentalist Wahabbist sect of Islam. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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United States, New York, Supreme Court, British Empire, Professor Vendler, Air Force, Bill of Rights, Middle East, Marilyn Horne, Soviet Union, World Trade Center, Carnegie Hall, White House, American Christianity, Art Deco, Charles Street, Cold War, Gulf War, Marianne Moore, Network-Centric Warfare, New Haven, Niall Ferguson, Oglala Lakota, Rita Dove, Saddam Hussein New!
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- Negative Blue: Selected Later Poems by Charles Wright on page 190, and page 192
- What Was Lost by Joanna Henry on page 177, and page 178
- Who are We?: America's Great Debate by Samuel P. Huntington on page 228, and page 243
- Winston Churchill (Penguin Lives) by John Keegan on page 3
- First Amendment (Stargate SG-1, Book 3) by Ashley McConnell on page 203
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