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 ...

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

Suzanna Murawski on Giotto’s frescoes, the university’s origins & an embattled Klimt.

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.

On The Technological Republic, by Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska.

Many American poets still take their tensions from Robert Lowell and Sylvia Plath, whose confessional poetry (a term coined by the critic M. L. Rosenthal) has been the de facto manner for the past two ...

Thomas Larcher, the Austrian composer, made one of the most charming remarks I have ever heard from a concert stage. The New York Philharmonic was about to play his Symphony No. 2. He had come out to ...

When the Yale Center for British Art first dropped anchor in 1977 on the far side of New Haven’s Chapel Street, the cultural ocean-liner arrived as one of the last great vessels from the golden age of ...