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An introduction to The New Criterion’s 2018 symposium on Russell Kirk.

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On Kirk’s legal philosophy.

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On politics and religion in Brazil after their recent presidential election.

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On a Charles White retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art.

Exhibition note

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On “Bruce Nauman: Disappearing Acts” at the Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1.

The collector’s omnivorous taste

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On Richard Wallace and the Wallace Collection.

Music

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On performances by the Latvian Radio Choir, Marc-André Hamelin, the New York Philharmonic, and the Metropolitan Opera.

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On The Clinton Affair & on the Jim Acosta lawsuit.

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Making book in Russia

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On the subject of gambling in canonical Russian literature.

Isabel, Mélisande, et al.

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January 16, 2019

Debussy comes back to the Met

The BMA breaks the piggy bank

by Brian T. Allen

January 15, 2019

On a recent deaccessioning and spending spree at the Baltimore Museum of Art.

Romantic landscapes from the North

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January 15, 2019

On “Plein Air Sketching in the North” at the Morgan Library & Museum.

The Critic’s Notebook

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Week in review

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January 11, 2019

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Features

Permanent Things: Russell Kirk’s centenary

by Roger Kimball

Conservatism & the politics of prudence

by Daniel J. Mahoney

Russell Kirk, worldly conservative

by Daniel McCarthy

The unwritten constitution

by Gerald J. Russello

The politics of the imagination

by R. R. Reno

The ghosts of Russell Kirk

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Winter under siege

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Fields under offer

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Turner’s buoy

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Numbered among the “ploucs”

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