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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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Sep 26, 2023
The Critic’s Notebook
On Rachmaninoff, D. Stanley Dixon, ancient languages & “Acts of Faith.”
Sep 19, 2023
The Critic’s Notebook
On wokeism, Manet and Degas, Balanchine, Selinunte & more from the world of culture.
Sep 12, 2023
The Critic’s Notebook
On the Hispanic Society of America, Brett Taylor, shape-note singing, the English landscape & 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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