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5 days ago · On “Louise d’Orléans, First Queen of the Belgians: A Romantic Destiny” at the Musée Condé, Château de Chantilly, France.
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Forward into the past by William Logan. On new poetry by Frederick Seidel, Robert Pinsky, Billy Collins, Emily Jungmin Yoon, Mosab Abu Toha & Frank X Walker.
Francis Fukuyama and the end of History | The New Criterion
“The end of history as such,” “the evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government”: these were the sorts of statements—along with Francis Fukuyama’s professed conviction that “the ideal will govern the material world in the long run”—that rang the alarm.. Some of the negative responses to Francis Fukuyama’s article, as ...
How much is too much? | The New Criterion
Jul 23, 2019 · The previous $10 general admission ticket comprised approximately five percent of annual revenue before 2013. We have received support from individuals, corporations, and foundations towards this amount and have also seen growth in earned income from our cafes, parking garage, and Museum store, which goes towards making free general admission possible, but does not fully make up for that revenue.
The triumph of Thomas Sowell | The New Criterion
T ho mas Sowell is one of the towering American intellectuals of our time. An economist trained at the University of Chicago and a social theorist of the first rank, he has been a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University since 1980.
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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 antimatter, it exploded instantaneously!” The first translations into Western languages in 1974—just fifty years ago—proved almost as sensational. No …
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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 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 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 hands create the harmonies that give it color. In the bel canto operas of Bellini, the diva astonishes with her delivery of the top line while the orchestra provides dutiful underpinning, moving from tonic to ...
October 2021 - The New Criterion
A shaky new season by Kyle Smith. On Pass Over at August Wilson Theatre, Trial on the Potomac: The Impeachment of Richard Nixon at the Theatre at St. Clement’s, and The Book of Moron at Soho Playhouse.