June 06, 2024
June Party with Encounter Books
The New Criterion invites its Friends and Young Friends to celebrate the close of Volume 42 at a cocktail party in New York.
Thursday, June 6, 6 p.m.
RSVP to Isaac Sligh for details.
The New Criterion invites its Friends and Young Friends to celebrate the close of Volume 42 at a cocktail party in New York.
Thursday, June 6, 6 p.m.
RSVP to Isaac Sligh for details.
The Eleventh Edmund Burke Award for Service to Culture and Society will be awarded to Ronald S. Lauder at a special gala evening in New York. Visit
newcriterion.com/gala for more details and to purchase tickets.
May 2, 6:30 p.m.
The Metropolitan Club, New York
For questions, please contact Isaac Sligh:
[email protected]
The New Criterion invites its Friends and Young Friends to an evening of cocktails and conversation with the painter Judy Kudlow at a private club in New York.
April 18, 6 p.m.
RSVP to Isaac Sligh ([email protected]) by April 10 for details.
The New Criterion invites its Friends and Young Friends to celebrate the recipient of the twenty-third New Criterion Poetry Prize, Peter Vertacnik. Peter’s collection The Nature of Things Fragile is out now from Criterion Books.
Thursday, April 4, 6 p.m.
New York
RSVP to Isaac Sligh ([email protected]) for details.
Statesman, theorist, and philosopher: The work of Edmund Burke (1729-1797) is as pertinent today as it has ever been. Last year, celebrating our thirty-sixth season, The New Criterion honored Victor Davis Hanson with the sixth annual Edmund Burke Award for Service to Culture and Society. This year we are delighted to honor Andrew Roberts with the seventh iteration of the award. Please join us on April 4, 2019 as we celebrate his work at a gala dinner at The Metropolitan Club in New York City.
RSVP here.
The New Criterion
invites you to
Permanent Things: Russell Kirk’s Centenary
a symposium
Friday, October 19, 2018
Continental Breakfast: 8:30–9:30
Morning Session: 9:30–12:30
Lunch: 12:45–1:45
Afternoon Session: 2:00–4:00
The New York Yacht Club
37 West 44th Street
New York, NY 10036
Criterion Books invites Friends and Young Friends to a panel discussion celebrating the release of Criterion Books’
Observation: Notation
Selected Writings of Andrew Forge, 1955–2002
With panelists: William Bailey, David Cast, Betty Cuningham & Kyle Staver
Moderated by James Panero
Wednesday, October 3, 6:30 p.m.
The New York Studio School,
8 West 8th Street
New York, NY 10011
No response necessary; seating is open and limited
For more information, please click here.
On September 6, the Editors of The New Criterion and staff of Encounter Books welcomed Friends, Young Friends, and authors to Encounter Books’ office to mark the start of another season.
Guests toasted the new season with punch, hors d’ouevres, and good cheer.
On March 7, the Editors of The New Criterion sat down for an evening of food and discussion with a group of Young Friends supporters at The Knickerbocker Club.
The guest speaker of the evening was Dominic Green, a prolific contributor to The New Criterion, who discussed the enduring relevance and success of quality print magazines in the so-called “death of print” era. Green is also a regular contributor to The Wall Street Journal, The Weekly Standard, The Spectator, National Review, The Atlantic, and other various publications.
A conference with New Criterion editors and contributors.
Please join the editors of The New Criterion for a day-long conference with Members of London’s Social Affairs Unit on “Populism and its critics: how conservatives should respond to the populist challenge.
The term “populist” has been applied to charismatic leaders who appeal directly to the people, over the heads of patrician elites: a broad range of leaders, from Julius Caesar to Adolf Hitler, have borne the moniker. No useful purpose is served by comparing Donald Trump to Andrew Jackson, Teddy Roosevelt, or anybody else. His presidency doesn’t mean that American democracy is in danger, any more than Brexit means that Britain has succumbed to xenophobia. Nevertheless, populism does pose serious challenges to conservatives. There is the risk that the attack on new progressive elites will be used to attack all elites. Our conference proposes to ask how conservatives should respond to the challenges of the new politics.
We hope you will be able to join us for this timely discussion. Participants will include David Azerrad, Jeremy Black, Chris Buskirk, Douglas Carswell, Michael Gleba, Philip Hamburger, Daniel Johnson, Roger Kimball, Andrew C. McCarthy, Christopher Montgomery, Michael Mosbacher, George Nash, and James Piereson.
RSVP to Andrew Shea ([email protected] or 212.247.6980) for more information.
The New Criterion’s Fifth Edmund Burke Award Gala honored Philippe de Montebello, who served as the museum director of New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art for more than three decades. Please enjoy these highlights from a special night and consider becoming a Friend of The New Criterion at newcriterion.com/friends.
The New Criterion hosted "The Future of Permanence in an Age of Ephemera," a symposium on museums at the Consulate General of France on October 21, 2016. Please enjoy photos from the event below and consider joining us as a Friend of The New Criterion for all invitations to all of our talks and symposia at newcriterion.com/friends.
Join the editors of The New Criterion as we celebrate the release of Michael Spence’s New Criterion Poetry Prize–winning book, Umbilical.
Thursday, September 8 at 5:30 P.M. This is a Friends and Young Friends of The New Criterion event. R.S.V.P. to Eric Simpson for location: [email protected]
Please join the editors of The New Criterion for an evening of dinner, conversation, and music in the Berkshire mountains. The evening will feature musical performances by Eric C. Simpson, Richard J. Miller, and Alexandra Kimball.
Saturday, August 6, 6:30 P.M. R.S.V.P. for location: [email protected]