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Why conservatives support racial profiling.

In one corner: fighting for the right to spend the surplus.

In the other: defending the "lockbox."

Florida makes sure good parents can't adopt.

Why only David Mamet could do justice to the way Democrats have been acting lately.

Leaving Durban is the first bright spot in Dubya's otherwise atrocious foreign policy.

Is there a medicare surplus?

How the Third World plays its own version of the race card.

Alan Greenspan could rescue us, but won't.

Stanley Kauffmann on Films: Swedish hippies and an Iranian in love.

	The Passing of the Past
	"Nessun Dorma"
	Second Thoughts
	The Other Bergman
	Tipping the Scales
	Polishing a Gem
	One Plus One Equals Zero
	High Places and Low
	Plottings, Real and Otherwise
	Frustrations
	Films Worth Seeing

Classic Reviews: Theatre Life
Harold Clurman on why all the talent in the world will get an actor nowhere if he's in the wrong environment. (1949)

	Stanley Kauffmann's 1968 pan of the movie The Producers.
	Part Two of Otis Ferguson's classic attack on Citizen Kane (1941)
	Edmund Wilson on what makes the Stravinsky a different sort of master.
	Otis Ferguson asks, so what if Orson Welles is a genius?
	TNR Online's complete Classic Reviews collection

Robert Brustein on Theater:
Celebrity Classics
The star-studded Seagull is, well, stellar.

	Contempt for Acting: Robert Brustein explores the fall of Brando.
	Philip Glass's In the Penal Colony harrows you with fear and wonder.
	Underneath the sequins and the swastikas, The Producers is a good old-fashioned musical comedy.
	Saved showed that shock isn't dead.
	Robert Edward Albee's latest offering alternates between brilliance and fraudulence.
	Robert Brustein surveys the theater scene in South Africa.
	Robert Wilson dreams A Dream Play with spectacular results.
	Susan Sontag's Alice in Bed and Requiem for Srebrenica.

Jed Perl on Art: Studies of Picasso as sexual provocateur and as proverbial creator.

	Blake and Bonnard reinvigorated easel painting by rejecting it.
	Shouldn't a work of art be experienced and understood?
	Farewell to Balthus, the great twentieth-century enigma.
	Edouard Manet's careless genius.
	New York and its artists, the two way street that never sleeps.
	Madame Tussaud's for the dot-com generation.
	The revolutionary subtleties of Japanese calligraphy.

Jed Perl's Art Notes
William Kentridge is a socially aware South African artist of the old school.

	Sebastião Salgado
	Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
	Fairfield Porter
	Frank Gehry
	Andreas Gursky
	Johannes Vermeer
	Paul McCarthy
	Franz Ackermann
	Gary Stephan
	Shirley Kaneda
	Edward Thorp
	Andrew Forge
	Art Notes Archive

Martin Filler on Architecture: Mies and the Mastodon
One of the titans of modern architecture

	A generation of upstarts challenge the modern architectural establishment
	The disaster in progress at Columbus Circle
	Tate Museum and the crisis of modernism

Mindy Aloff on Dance: Spitballs at Euclid
Twyla Tharp's energetic pursuit of classicism

	The Troublemaker
	Arias
	The rebirth of "Appalachian Spring"

The Gospel of Relaxation: Louis Menand's take on 19th-century thought.

Pauline Kael Redux: In a 1967 TNR essay, she asked, "Who the hell goes to movies for mature, adult, sober art anyway?"

Nevermind: According to Alex Abramovich, we've forgotten what the tradition of true political rock--when there was such a thing--was all about.

Decorum: Adam Kirsch on a modern poet who uses discipline to bring chaos to life.

The Sixties Go to War: Paul Berman on the passion of Joschka Fischer, and how the pacifists of '68 came to wage the "liberals' war."

Holy Realists: Alan Wolfe's guide to speaking in tongues.

The Professor of Complacence: Simon Blackburn asks, Should we do away with Truth, Reason, and Knowledge?

Stanley Kauffmann on Films: An Italian opera in Beijing; a revolutionary heart.

Jed Perl on Art: Pornography, communism, and Picasso's elusive identity.

The First Picture Show: Brian Frye on the myth of the early American film avant-garde.

Directors for Hire: BMW buys A-list film-makers; Are art and commerce the same?