In a year of much discussion of the Man of Twists and Turns, it was fitting that the Orchestra of the Greek National Opera ...
The book begins with Rowe’s visit to a fête, which revives happy memories of his youth. He stops by gift booths, plays ...
She pointed out that recent decisions by the Court have set off a new wave of partisan gerrymandering by both political ...
The performance was dull. “Insuperably dull,” to borrow a phrase from William F. Buckley Jr. (who was describing a book).
The man is inarticulate.” Writing to his future wife Katharine in 1906 while in Cairo (a place he cared for no more than he ...
Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. I daresay most of us have been through such a stage in life, and much may be forgiven the author because of her ...
Editors’ note: The following is an edited version of remarks delivered for The New Criterion’s eighth annual Circle Lecture on September 24, 2026. I’m afraid there’s a price to pay for asking a ...
On The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, by Robert A. Caro. The one trait shared by everyone who seeks the modern U.S. presidency is a sociopathic indifference to normal human behaviors ...
From about 1920 to about 1950, Harold Laski was one of the best-known academic intellectuals in the English-speaking world. After Oxford and after two relatively obscure years at McGill University in ...