The performance was dull. “Insuperably dull,” to borrow a phrase from William F. Buckley Jr. (who was describing a book).
She pointed out that recent decisions by the Court have set off a new wave of partisan gerrymandering by both political ...
On Pericles, William Hogarth, Tomás Luis de Victoria, Russell Kirk, Frederic Edwin Church & more from the world of culture. William Hogarth, A Rake’s Progress, Plate 8: In Bedlam, 1763, Engraving, ...
Each week the editors of The New Criterion offer recommendations on what to read, see, and hear in the world of culture in the weekly Critic’s Notebook. To get it first, subscribe to the free Critic’s ...
None dare say “battle of the bands.” Apologies: I just did. Three weeks ago, the New York Philharmonic, under Gustavo Dudamel, played Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 in David Geffen Hall. Last night, the ...
The question before us is this: what do progressives really want? It’s always worth attending to what people tell you they ...
On Marco Rubio’s address in Athens.
Every culture has a literature that is to some extent subterranean. Much of it deserves to stay there. But certain pieces occasionally bubble to the surface. Invariably this happens because the work ...
On the nineteenth-century French historian & literary critic. We live in an age that has grown not merely impatient with ...
Henrik Bering on his education at the Krebs’ School in Copenhagen.
Thomas Sowell is one of the towering American intellectuals of our time. An economist trained at the University of Chicago and a social theorist of the first rank, he has been a senior fellow at the ...
Andrew Stuttaford on recently published fiction by Frederic Prokosch, Jon Fosse, Nicholson Baker & Robert G. Penner.
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