Matthew Arnold
The Rushdie Affair and the Struggle Against Islamism
Joseph Anton: A Memoir By Salman Rushdie (Random House, 636 pp., $30) I. READ MORE >>
Homer Now
The Iliad of HomerTranslated by Richmond Lattimore (University of Chicago Press, 599 pp., $15) Homer: The IliadTranslated by Anthony Verity (Oxford University Press, 470 pp., $29.95) Homer: The IliadTranslated by Stephen Mitchell (Free Press, 466 pp., $35) Memorial: An Excavation of the IliadBy Alice Oswald (Faber & Faber, 84 pp., £12.99) READ MORE >>
Another Kind of Atheism
A Victory For Social Justice, Hallelujah!
I don’t mean to poach on Jonathan Cohn’s turf, or Jonathan Chait’s either. For all the hysteria of the Republicans and the shady deals of the majority party, the passage of universal health care is a triumph of the democratic idea and of the democratic ideal. “Choose equality and flee greed,” Matthew Arnold urged the nineteenth-century British. Still, from the vantage point of class stratification, England remains a rigidly layered society. But everyone in the country is entitled to medical care, maybe not great medical care but medical care nonetheless. READ MORE >>
Lifting the Shadow Off the Tax System
The fact is that it did not happen until Barack Obama became president. It was a standing offense to American tax justice that probably hundreds of thousands of our very rich countrymen brazenly avoided the reach of the Internal Revenue Service simply by transferring (much of) their wealth to foreign banks in Switzerland and about 15 other countries, which protected the identities of these depositors by their laws. READ MORE >>
Heroes and Echoes
Tragedy: Shakespeare and the Greek Example by Adrian Poole READ MORE >>
