July/
August
2015

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  How Art Became Irrelevant

  By Michael J. Lewis

  
  

Articles

• Why College Kids Are Avoiding the Study of Literature

  Gary Saul Morson

  Students wisely reject the humanities when they’re taught badly. There’s a better way.

• Solving the Problem of Too Little Crime

  William Voegeli

  Democrats are gearing up to reverse decades of successful policing.

• The 36-Year Project to Whitewash Iran

  Sohrab Ahmari

  Iran’s American apologists have scored an unprecedented triumph: Making the United States friendly toward a regime whose motto is ‘Death to America.’

Fiction

• The Man and the Bum

  John J. Clayton

  The short story for July/August

Politics & Ideas

• Another Dutch

  Richard Starr

  Reagan, by H.W. Brands

• To Medina and Back

  Michael J. Totten

  Heretic, by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

• Inside the Battle

  Joshua Muravchik

  The Great War of Our Time, by Michael Morell

• The ‘Peace Industry’

  Jonathan Neumann

  Catch the Jew!, by Tuvia Tenenbom

Culture & Civilization

• Lincoln Center’s Dark Legacy

  Terry Teachout

  Every institution has its rise and fall.

• Community Organizer

  Abe Greenwald

  The World Beyond Your Head, by Matthew B. Crawford

• The Streets Are Paved with Golden

  Edward Kosner

  Carolina Israelite, by Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett

• Taking the High Road

  Paul O. Carrese

  The Road to Character, by David Brooks

• Misled by Franzen

  Fernanda Moore

  Mislaid, by Nell Zink

• Republicans Against the Swarm

  Matthew Continetti

  Mediacracy

John Podhoretz

• If He Only Had a Heart

  John Podhoretz

  John Podhoretz

Letters

• A Master’s Moral Vision

  Our Readers

  Responses to “The Moral Urgency of Anna Karenina” by Gary Saul Morson

• Cry for Argentina

  Our Readers

  Responses to “The Nisman Case and the Whitewashing of Iran” by Ben Cohen

• Philip Glass Half-Empty

  Our Readers

  Responses to “Philip Glass Half-Full” by Terry Teachout

Enter Laughing

• The April Fool’s Joke

  The joke for July/August