Hilton Kramer

It is with a feeling of immense foreboding that I regard the future of cultural life in the first decade of the new millennium, never mind what might be in store for our society further on in the coming century. All the portents point to an acceleration of the merry, mindless, technology-driven . . . . Continue Reading »

The Scandal of Pleasure: Art in an Age of Fundamentalism By Wendy Steiner University of Chicago Press, 232 pages, $24.95 It was inevitable, perhaps, that the “culture wars””the debate that continues to rage over the impact of political correctness, multiculturalism, and their allied . . . . Continue Reading »