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Notes & Comments September 1982
A note on The New Criterion
An inaugural statement from the founding editors of The New Criterion.
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Nov 29, 2022
The Critic’s Notebook
On Milton Gendel, Machiavelli, Elizabeth Higgins, Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 12 & more from the world of culture.
Nov 22, 2022
The Critic’s Notebook
On Crassus, Helen Frankenthaler, Don Carlo at the Met, the ancient Balkans & more from the world of culture.
Nov 15, 2022
The Critic’s Notebook
Joseph Johnson, Tommaso Traetta, the Oratorio Society, La traviata & more from the world of culture.
September 13, 2019
Roger Kimball receives the 2019 Phillips Award
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Roger Kimball, the editor and publisher of The New Criterion, accepts the 2019 Thomas L. Phillips Career Achievement Award from The Fund for American Studies at their twenty-sixth annual Journalism Awards Dinner on September 12.
July 30, 2018
Is civilization overrated? (audio article)
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On a bit of Rousseauvian nonsense taken up by the modern academy.
June 01, 2016
Ayaan Hirsi Ali on Islam and the defense of Western Civilization
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