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The Critic’s Notebook by the Editors. On Mondrian, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Henry Hobson Richardson, ancient moneymaking & more from the world of culture.
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The masterpiece of our time | The New Criterion
W he n Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation appeared in 1973, its impact, the author recalled, was immediate: “Like matter enveloped by …
January 2025 | The New Criterion
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“The profundity of evil,” by Douglas Murray
Editors’ note: The following is an edited version of remarks delivered for The New Criterion ’s sixth annual Circle Lecture on September 26, 2024.. O ve r the last six decades, a certain phrase …
The heart of fugue | The New Criterion
M an y people, if they wonder how music is made up, suppose that it consists of a tune and an accompaniment. The paradigmatic guitarist in front of a campfire croons the melody, while his …
The diversity myth | The New Criterion
Editors’ note: The following is an edited version of remarks delivered at The New Criterion ’s gala on April 27, 2023, honoring Peter Thiel with the tenth Edmund Burke Award for Service to …
“Our Athenian American Democracy,” by Victor Davis Hanson
Democracy—the word itself means “people (demos) power (kratos)”—originated in late sixth-century Athens through the reforms of Cleisthenes.The Athenian popular leader transferred …
“The ferryman’s due,” by Patrick Kurp
A n obolus is a small silver coin the Greeks placed under the tongues of the dead so they could pay Charon as he ferried them across the river Styx to the underworld. Andrew Rickard named …
About | The New Criterion
The New Criterion, edited by Roger Kimball, was founded in 1982 by the art critic Hilton Kramer and the pianist and music critic Samuel Lipman.A monthly review of the arts and intellectual …