Art for Politics’ Sake by Christopher Caldwell Under attack, the National Endowment for the Arts is now proposing to turn culture into a tool of social policy.
Asian Values and the Asian Crisis by Francis Fukuyama Do the nations of the East have a distinct cultural identity, and is it the source either of their rapid…
Does Lincoln Center Still Matter? by Terry Teachout At age thirty-five, America's foremost arts complex shows signs of foundering.
Dollar Diplomacy Returns by Lawrence J. Kaplan In its emphasis on promoting trade as the guarantor of security, the Clinton administration has things exactly backward.
Feminizing Jewish Studies by Hillel Halkin Rewriting-and falsifying-the past, a new group of scholars aims to bring the sexual revolution home to the Jewish present.
Was There a Big Bang? by David Berlinski The universe, cosmologists affirm, came into existence in an explosion; but the evidence for this thesis is more suspect, and…