Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Diane Ravitch condemns (“Selling Out Our Public Schools,” in The New York Review of March 13, dubbed on the ...

Hilton Kramer (1928–2012) was the founding editor of The New Criterion, which he started with the late Samuel Lipman in 1982.From 1987 until 2006, he was also the art critic for the weekly New York ...