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, ...
The Editors of The New Criterion are pleased to announce that Midge Goldberg is the winner of the twenty-sixth New Criterion ...
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 ...
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 ...
On Francisco de Zurbarán, Richard Strauss, urban photography, Madison Square Park & more from the world of culture.
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 ...
Hadley Arkes on “Alito,” by Mollie Hemingway. T he late, beloved professor Leo Strauss remarked in one of his asides that “the Bible begins reasonably,” which is to say it begins at “ the beginning.” ...
On March 29, 1516, the Senate of the Most Serene Republic of Venice issued a decree that redefined the relationship between Jews and Christians in the city. The edict stipulated that, “in order to ...
Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. As a consequence, attempting to explain to younger readers in the 1990s what it meant in 1937 to launch a ...
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