In Book IV of Homer’s Odyssey, Odysseus’s young son, Telémakhos, visits the court of his father’s erstwhile comrade-in-arms at Troy, Menelaos, the king of Sparta, in an attempt to glean information ...

The Editors of The New Criterion are pleased to announce that Midge Goldberg is the winner of the twenty-sixth New Criterion ...

The Muse-inspired poet Hesiod, who lived very long ago, but still in the middle of things, sang of cosmic beginnings and human ends. His Theogony relates that everything comes from Chaos: a primal, ...

One wonders what might have happened if the Great Depression hadn’t intervened in her career, obliging her to retreat to her family in Morgantown, West Virginia, and take assignments from the Works ...

(1974), the Supreme Court further broadened the group who could be maligned by the media to include “limited-purpose public ...

Editors’ note: The following is an edited version of remarks delivered at The New Criterion’s gala on April 22, 2026, honoring Harvey Mansfield with the thirteenth Edmund Burke Award for Service to ...

Jay Nordlinger on a performance of “Carmina Burana” at the Teatro Massimo.

This season of 250th-anniversary commemorations provides a perfect platform for broadcasting the merits of the American project, especially to youth whose educators may be concerned more with the ...

The other program, the subject of this review, appealed to more advanced balletomanes—works by Gianna Reisen, Ulysses Dove, ...

On Francisco de Zurbarán, Richard Strauss, urban photography, Madison Square Park & more from the world of culture.

Whatever happened to the Regency gentleman—or rake—who whiled away his days drinking, flirting, and generally getting up to no good? Perhaps his spirit died with Simon Raven (1927–2001), one of the ...