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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.”
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.
The groundbreaking daguerreotype | The New Criterion
WEBApr 24, 2019 · The daguerreotype has rarely been thought of as anything more than a vernacular medium, like a Kodak drugstore print. In the photography canon, daguerreotypes generally fall somewhere between curio and junk. They’ve always been the poor stepsiblings of prints on paper. For roughly twenty years, from around 1840 to 1860, they were mostly an ...
“Putting down roots,” by Joshua T. Katz - The New Criterion
WEBpurchase article. Joshua T. Katz was Cotsen Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University and is a Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He served as a Visiting Critic for the 2022–23 season of The New Criterion. This article originally appeared in The New Criterion, Volume 43 Number 1, on page 70.
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 …
September 2023 - The New Criterion
WEBSep 1, 2024 · 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.
“The red star returns,” by Gary Saul Morson - The New Criterion
WEBby. Gary Saul Morson. On the specter of communism. J us t when everyone at the monastery has heaved a sigh of relief that the repulsive villain of The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Pavlovich, has at last gone home after behaving scandalously, he reappears. “They thought I had gone, and here I am again!” he chortles maliciously, devising fresh ...
Unprecedented | The New Criterion
WEBMichael Anton is a Lecturer in Politics and a Research Fellow at Hillsdale College’s Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies in Washington, D.C. He served on the National Security Council Staff in the administration of President Donald J. Trump. This article originally appeared in The New Criterion, Volume 40 Number 4, on page 4 ...
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.)
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