September 30, 2020

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The New Criterion’s Visiting Critic Myron Magnet delivers the second annual Circle Lecture, followed by an interview with Myron by Executive Editor James Panero. Read the text to this lecture in the November 2020 issue of The New Criterion.

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Myron Magnet, a National Humanities Medalist, is the former editor of City Journal. He was the 2020–21 Visiting Critic at The New Criterion.

Roger Kimball is Editor and Publisher of The New Criterion and President and Publisher of Encounter Books. His latest books include The Fortunes of Permanence: Culture and Anarchy in an Age of Amnesia (St. Augustine’s Press) and Who Rules? Sovereignty, Nationalism, and the Fate of Freedom in the Twenty-first Century (Encounter Books). 

James Panero is the Executive Editor of The New Criterion.