Sen’s Sensibility

Some years ago, I had the good fortune to befriend an extended family who lived in a poor shantytown in the southern reaches of Santiago, Chile.

James North

Global Is as Global Does?

If one wants to understand what all the fuss is about as the World Trade Organization holds its ministerial conference, Ethan Kapstein’s Sharing the Wealth: Workers and the World Economy,

Mark Levinson

The Heat in the Kitchen

He poses like a tightrope walker, though one who’s unexpectedly domestic and chubby.

Stuart Klawans

Flag-Waving at the Whitney

The Triumph of the New York School, a deeply ironic painting by the American artist Mark Tansey, looks at first sight like a rotogravure depiction of a military surrender that took place l

Arthur C. Danto

Innocents Abroad

When people label a film “great,” the usual effect is to close off a discussion that ought to be opening.

Stuart Klawans

Fighting the Art Bullies

New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani has created enormous consternation and publicity in his attempts to censor an exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum of Art.