From The New Criterion, a special issue on the dictatorship of relativism, including Anthony Daniels on the moral consequences of relativism; Andrew McCarthy on relativism: paving the road to radicalism; the mystification of change: James Bowman on the media's game of good and evil; the art market bubble: An essay on the folly of speculating on contemporary art; and John Derbyshire reviews The Art Instinct by Denis Dutton (and more). Many Obama supporters claim that including, accommodating and compromising with the right will create post-partisan harmony; when have Democrats not done that? Can partisanship save citizenship? In the 1990s, reformers and academics worried about how to improve civic life, but they didn't foresee that technology combined with party politics would renew civic engagement and even elect one of their own. A review of In the World but Not of It: One Family’s Militant Faith and the History of Fundamentalism in America by Brett Grainger. James Wolcott reviews The Widows of Eastwick by John Updike (and more). Death, like a furry brown bat with a wingspread as wide as a pterodactyl’s, shrank Himself to the size of a quarter and slipped in through the crack underneath the front door. A review of Europe Between the Oceans: 9000 BC-AD 1000 by Barry Cunliffe. More and more on The Philosopher and the Wolf by Mark Rowlands.