A review of a new production of I puritani might begin with the production—the stage direction, the set design, etc. Or it ...

New Criterion executive editor and New York Post columnist James Panero joins Cam to discuss his experience in applying for and receiving a NYC carry permit, as well as the hurdles he continues to ...

Anatoly Grablevsky on “Monet and Venice,” at the Brooklyn Museum of Art.

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Trilling belonged to perhaps the last generation of academics who believed that they had something of general ...

In his “Petition to be buried on the beach at Sète,” Georges Brassens, another native of that windy little port town south of Montpellier, asks the “good master” Paul Valéry to pardon his proposal for ...

David Fromkin was a lawyer, professor, and historian. He was renowned for his chronicling of the history of the Middle East and the Ottoman Empire.

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Democrats won recent elections in New York City, New Jersey, and Virginia by calling attention to the “affordability crisis”—the claim that prices are too high and stretching the budgets of most ...

It is a great irony that at a time when Facebook and Twitter are closing accounts of conservatives for allegedly promoting “hate,” and conservative speakers are banned from college campuses for (as it ...

Last month, the University of Oxford announced in the weekly Gazette a series of proposed “changes to the Conduct of Ceremonies in Congregation, and certain other Ceremonies.” Among these changes are ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. This petition is remarkable because it involves one of the preeminent cultural institutions in the world being ...