Roger Kimball writes: With the death of David Horowitz at the age of eighty-six on April 29, America lost not only one of its most passionate, well-informed, and effective critics of the Left but also ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Editors’ note: To buy this and other classic New Criterion essays in stand-alone print format, see the reprint series in our bookstore. Since it is difficult, or rather impossible, to represent a ...

It is a conceit of the modern world that history is governed by reason. Reason is like an axe to the living, growing tree of history, with its convoluted branches, each cell and molecule emerging as a ...

On Mr. Lasch’s book The Revolt of the Elites. Although its language was sometimes over-blown—one section is entitled “The Banality of Pseudo-Self-Awareness: Theatrics of Politics and Everyday ...

Editors’ note: “Reflections on the revolution: a symposium” examines the causes, conduct, and consequences of the American Revolution as well as the enduring pertinence of the United States’ founding ...

It is remarkable that, despite its long record of failure, socialism is now more popular than ever among college students and in progressive precincts of the Democratic Party, at least judging by the ...

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 ...