On Independence Day, Revolutionary-era art & battlegrounds.

Verdi’s masterpiece of 1853, La traviata. She fashioned her production in 2016. It was staged last Wednesday night at the ...

Paul du Quenoy on a performance of Tchaikovsky’s “Sleeping Beauty” by the Hungarian National Ballet, Budapest.

Weekly recommendations from the Editors on what to read, see, and hear in the world of culture.

It is not an exaggeration to say that we live today in the Age of Friedman, an era shaped by his ideas about the importance ...

Editors’ note: This essay is adapted from The Golden Thread by Allen C. Guelzo and James Hankins, to be published by Encounter Books in 2024. For the very element of unexpectedness in the events I ...

The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of supreme strength, of a life of maximum vigor, which has also been called the ideal of aesthetic greatness. That life is in truth the ...

Every culture has a literature that is to some extent subterranean. Much of it deserves to stay there. But certain pieces occasionally bubble to the surface. Invariably this happens because the work ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Pfitzner found the perfect vehicle for this theme in an episode in the life of the Renaissance composer Pierluigi ...

[T]he whig historian can draw lines through certain events, . . . and if he is not careful he begins to forget that this line is merely a mental trick of his; he comes to imagine that it represents ...

In 1970, the Procurator General of the Discalced Carmelite Order, Finian Monahan, was summoned to the Vatican for a meeting. The subject of the meeting was a promising young American priest by the ...

Editors’ note: To buy this and other classic New Criterion essays in stand-alone print format, see the reprint series in our bookstore. A standout number is “The Three Bs,” in which three high-school ...