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 ...

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 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, ...

No sport—not even boxing or baseball or tennis—has inspired a literature as impressive as cricket has, and this may be in part because the earliest competitive years of cricket were dominated by ...

C ar ol Bove was born in Geneva in 1971 to American parents. Since the 1990s she has lived and worked in New York. Her career belongs to this century. In the summer of 2021 astonishing sculptures by ...