Culture and technology.

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• A Question of Character Can even the great works of world literature explain Bill Clinton?
  Jacob Weisberg Dec. 20, 1998
  
• Art Heaven The economist Tyler Cowen thinks we live in a cultural paradise. Do we?
  Jacob Weisberg Dec. 13, 1998
  
• Give That Man Another Guggenheim! How Frank Gehry became our greatest architect.
  Jacob Weisberg Dec. 6, 1998
  
• The Semi-Conductor A great conductor used to lead an orchestra. These days he leads two or three.
  Jacob Weisberg Nov. 22, 1998
  
• A Hundred Years of Lassitude Will the New York Times Book Review bore readers for another century?
  Jacob Weisberg Nov. 15, 1998
  
• A Wolf in Wolfe's Clothing Can a heartless novelist ever be great?
  Jacob Weisberg Nov. 8, 1998
  
• Splat, Spackle, Plop! Is Jackson Pollock a genius, or what?
  Jacob Weisberg Nov. 1, 1998
  
• The Modern Library Will anyone borrow books in the future?
  Jacob Weisberg Oct. 25, 1998
  
• Positively Fourth-Rate The latest Dylan release exposes the bootleg fallacy.
  Jacob Weisberg Oct. 18, 1998
  
• Jesus H. Christ! Corpus Christi takes the principle of artistic expression in vain.
  Jacob Weisberg Oct. 10, 1998
  
• The Slate Arts Index Is high culture riding high?
  Jacob Weisberg Oct. 4, 1998
  
• Paying for Opera Why it costs so much, and what to do about it.
  Jacob Weisberg Sept. 27, 1998
  
• I Have Seen the Millennium, and It Works. A huge dome near London symbolizes ... nearly everything.
  Jacob Weisberg Sept. 23, 1998
  
• Style Lab A tour through downtown Manhattan's design incubator.
  Jacob Weisberg Sept. 16, 1998
  
• Exhibiting Contempt Populism vs. democracy at the art museum.
  Jacob Weisberg Sept. 6, 1998
  
• Uncritical Critics Most movies are terrible, but you wouldn't know it from the reviews. Why?
  Jacob Weisberg Aug. 21, 1998
  
• Orwell, Listing The author of 1984 was right to name names.
  Jacob Weisberg Aug. 16, 1998
  
• “100 Best Novels”? The Authors Respond Eavesdropping on the Dead Authors' Guild Listserv.
  Jacob Weisberg July 31, 1998
  
• Avant-Garde, My Derri? The new academicism.
  Jacob Weisberg July 24, 1998