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October 20, 2014

When Defamatory Politics Masquerade as Art

The Death of Klinghoffer, an opera that aims to create sympathy for the terrorist hijackers of the Achille Lauro, returns to the New York Metropolitan Opera tonight. Edward Rothstein, reviewing the piece when it first opened in 1991, had some nice words for the conductor and the singers. But he also found the music “either atmospheric or emotionally elementary” and the message, delivered through a contrastingly “empathetic evocation of the [Palestinian] intifada” and mockery of the terrorists’ Jewish victims, politically rigged and morally repugnant. In Rothstein's summary:

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October 20, 2014

  1. A Shamefully Weak Link in the Defense of Civilization

  2. When Defamatory Politics Masquerade as Art

  3. Why Has the Vatican Gone out of Its Way to Condemn Samuel Huntington?

  4. A Western Education Does Not Mean a Pro-Western Outlook

  5. Frankly, My Dear, It’s Lying in My Left Earlock