Winter 2008 Issue
Departments
Editor's Note
Balancing Acts
Robert Wilson
Letters
Response to Our Autumn Issue
Our readers
Letters From …
Vienna: Trapped in a Golden Age
Alexandra Starr
Works in Progress
Things to Come in the Arts and Sciences
Not Available Online
Sandra Beasley
Tuning Up
Sign Language
Charles Trueheart
Commonplace Book
Gratitude
Anne Matthews
Book Essay
Souls Hungering After Meaning
Michael Dirda
Book Reviews
The Work of Death
Ernest B. Furgurson
Subjectivity Is All
Robert Campbell
The Casserole Inquisition
Sandra M. Gilbert
Wry Eye on the Bard
John F. Andrews
Latin’s Eminent Career
A. E. Stallings
A Long Walk in the New World
Robert Wilson
Articles
Who Cares About Executive Supremacy?
Lincoln Caplan
The scope of presidential power is the most urgent and the most ignored legal and political issue of our time
Moral Principle vs. Military Necessity
David Bosco
The first code of conduct during warfare, created by a Civil War–era Prussian immigrant, reflected ambiguities we struggle with to this day
Dreaming of a Democratic Russia
Sarah E Mendelson
Memories of a year in Moscow promoting a post-Soviet political process, an undertaking that now seems futile
The Daily Miracle
William Zinsser
Life with the mavericks and oddballs at the Herald Tribune
Cuss Time
Jill McCorkle
By limiting freedom of expression, we take away thoughts and ideas before they have the opportunity to hatch
Alone at the Movies
Mark Edmundson
My days in the dark with Robert Altman and Woody Allen
Balanchine’s Cabinet
Ann Hagman Cardinal
A young woman wins a drawing and learns to give and to receive
Confluences
Jennifer Sinor
As a beloved uncle makes his final journey in the wilderness, a new life begins
Findings: Meditations on the Literature of Spying
Jacques Barzun
From the Spring 1965 issue of The Scholar
The Cradle of Modernism
Jacques Barzun
From the Autumn 1990 issue of The Scholar
To the Rescue of Romanticism
Jacques Barzun
From the Spring 1940 issue of The Scholar
Findings: For Jacques Barzun on his 100th Birthday
Robert Wilson
Poetry
The Long Hall
Not Available Online
Rachel Hadas
Two Poems
Not Available Online
Stephen Cushman
Windy Ode
Not Available Online
Debora Greger
Arts
On the Road to Nowhere
John Patrick Diggins
Tom Stoppard’s Russian intellectuals take a wrong turn with Hegel, just as Edmund Wilson once did with Marx
The Quiet Sideman
Colin Fleming
Tenor saxist ‘Chu’ Berry emerged from the pack at the end of his short life
