The New Criterion
WEBA monthly review of the arts & intellectual life. Operating The New Criterion and attendant events are the sole activities of the Foundation for Cultural Review, a 501(c)(3) organization as defined by the Internal Revenue Service.
Dispatch | The New Criterion
WEB4 days ago · by. the Editors. On students, Dana Gioia, Amy Lincoln, the New York Philharmonic & more from the world of culture. September 6, 2024.
About | The New Criterion
WEBThe 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 life, The New Criterion began as an experiment in critical audacity—a publication devoted to engaging, in Matthew Arnold’s famous phrase, with “the best that has been thought and said.”
The soul of Strauss | The New Criterion
WEBIn a coruscating passage from an essay titled “Perspectives on the Good Society,” Strauss takes aim at the impotent rage that is the inevitable consequence of this flight from all authority. The self, Strauss explains, “is obviously a descendant of the soul”—meaning “it is not the soul.”. The soul “is a part of an order which ...
Roger Scruton, 1944–2020 | The New Criterion
WEBO ve r the years, I several times had the honor of introducing Roger Scruton at events organized by The New Criterion, Encounter Books, and other like-minded enterprises.I was looking forward to many more such occasions, just as I was looking forward to many more contributions from his pen for The New Criterion. (His first was in October 1982, our second issue; his last was in March 2017.)
Highways to utopia | The New Criterion
WEBthe cardinal problem had been how to conform the soul to reality, and the solution had been knowledge, self-discipline, and virtue. For magic and applied science alike the problem is how to subdue reality to the wishes of men: the solution is a technique; and both, in the practice of this technique, are ready to do things hitherto regarded as disgusting and impious—such as digging up and ...
September 2022 - The New Criterion
WEBOperating The New Criterion and attendant events are the sole activities of the Foundation for Cultural Review, a 501(c)(3) organization as defined by the Internal Revenue Service.
The promise of populism | The New Criterion
WEBEditors’ note: The following essay forms part of “The new conservative dilemma: a symposium,” a special section on the challenges facing conservatism today.Roger Kimball’s introduction can be read here.. Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack ...
How much is too much? | The New Criterion
WEBJul 23, 2019 · Back in 1992, the American Alliance of Museums found that 36 percent of all museums in the United States charged an admission fee. By 2008, the AAM reported that only a third of all museums were free to the public, with the average ticket being $10 for adults. On a national basis, admissions make up between 2 and 4 …
June 2022 - The New Criterion
WEBSep 1, 2024 · Companions of the past by William Logan. On new poetry by Lorna Goodison, Frank Bidart, Amanda Gorman, Anne Carson, Kevin Young & Tracy K. Smith.
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