September 20, 2023

Executive Editor James Panero sits down with Visiting Critic Wilfred M. McClay to discuss “The burden of the humanities,” the fifth annual Circle Lecture of The New Criterion.

The full text of the speech will be available in the November 2023 issue. For more information about the Circle of The New Criterion, visit here.

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James Panero is the Executive Editor of The New Criterion. 

Wilfred M. McClay is a professor of history at Hillsdale College and the author, most recently, of Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story (Encounter).