Suzanna Murawski on “Ravelstein,” Marsden Hartley & a new canvas adhesive.

Editors’ note: The following is an edited version of remarks delivered at The New Criterion’s gala on April 24, 2025, honoring Heather Mac Donald with the twelfth Edmund Burke Award for Service to ...

Nonfiction: Gustav Mahler, by Stephen Downes (Reaktion Books): Goethe, Wagner, Nietzsche: these are fairly well-known influences on the music and thought of Gustav Mahler. Fewer know, I’d wager, that ...

On maps of Britain, William Bailey, Mahler at Carnegie Hall, Winston Churchill & more from the world of culture.

Paul du Quenoy is President of the Palm Beach Freedom Institute. He holds a Ph. D. in History from Georgetown University. On a concert of Berg & Stravinsky by the San Francisco Symphony.

In his Lives of the Artists, Vasari credits Giotto as having no less than the status of nature itself: deserving to be imitated by painters everywhere. Giotto’s revolutionary fresco cycle in the ...

On Ralston College’s excellence in classics. There is more to Ralston than Greek and Latin. But nothing sets Ralston apart more than its professors’ ability to take young people who do not know these ...

On Edgar Allan Poe, the German Peasants’ War & José María Velasco.

On leaving Cambridge for Ralston College.

So, yes: Buckley was the founding father of modern conservatism, the man who legitimized conservatism as an intellectual ...

To say that Keith Windschuttle was one of the most controversial figures in Australian intellectual life would be a gross understatement. Across a range of issues, he created a great deal of trouble ...