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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.”
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 …
The train - The New Criterion
WEBRachel Hadas. Present into future: bold, bathed, new, also familiar, a déjà vu. Wait. Something I had never thought to see. again clanks forward from obscurity—. that creaky train I’d once been riding on, a journey slow and grim. Hasn’t that train left the station?
Baudelaire’s Modernism | The New Criterion
WEBCharles Baudelaire was the first modern poet.[1] In both style and content, his provocative, alluring, and shockingly original work shaped and enlarged the imagination of later poets. His influence was not limited to France but spread across Europe and the Americas. His work guided the symbolist movement, which became the dominant school of ...
Mene Ukueberuwa on doing journalism well | The New Criterion
WEBOn May 26, 2021, Mene Ukueberuwa addressed a gathering of the Young Friends of The New Criterion in New York. Listen to his remarks on the state of American journalism and what it means to do journalism well. Mene is introduced by Roger Kimball, Editor of The New Criterion, with prefatory remarks by Executive Editor James Panero.
The triumph of Thomas Sowell | The New Criterion
WEBIn 1930, the year he was born into a black family in Gastonia, North Carolina, the Great Depression was gathering strength. And Jim Crow was in full force, so he seldom encountered white people in his early years. As Riley explains, “He’d been turned away from restaurants and housing because of his skin color.
Gerald J. Russello, 1971–2021 | The New Criterion
WEBGerald was a prominent part of the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal, serving as editor of The University Bookman —the publication that Kirk started in 1960—from 2005 until his death. Gerald also found time to write or edit five books, including The Postmodern Imagination of Russell Kirk (2007). Kirk in his writings on the law ...
Leninthink | The New Criterion
WEBEditors’ note: The following is an edited version of remarks delivered at The New Criterion ’s inaugural Circle Lecture on September 25, 2019. To view an exclusive video of James Panero and Gary Saul Morson in conversation on “Leninthink,” click here and consider joining The New Criterion’s Circle. To buy this and other classic New Criterion essays in stand-alone print format, see ...