Permanent Things: Russell Kirk’s centenary
by Roger Kimball
An introduction to The New Criterion’s 2018 symposium on Russell Kirk.
Features
Conservatism & the politics of prudence
by Daniel J. Mahoney
On Edmund Burke, Russell Kirk & the conservative ethos.
Russell Kirk, worldly conservative
by Daniel McCarthy
On Kirk and foreign policy.
The unwritten constitution
by Gerald J. Russello
On Kirk’s legal philosophy.
The politics of the imagination
by R. R. Reno
On the cult and culture of “openness.”
The ghosts of Russell Kirk
by James Panero
On Kirk’s ghost stories and published fiction.
Poems
Letters from the World
Numbered among the “ploucs”
by Anthony Daniels
On the recent political unrest in Macron’s France.
Now we do
by Ernesto ArauÌjo
On politics and religion in Brazil after their recent presidential election.
Agora falamos
by Ernesto ArauÌjo
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Theater
Unsolvable problems
by Kyle Smith
On The Hard Problem at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, The Waverly Gallery at the John Golden Theatre & American Son at the Booth Theatre.
Art
Charles White at MoMA
by Karen Wilkin
On a Charles White retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art.
Exhibition note
by Mario Naves
On “Bruce Nauman: Disappearing Acts” at the Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1.
The collector’s omnivorous taste
by Brian T. Allen
On Richard Wallace and the Wallace Collection.
Music
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On performances by the Latvian Radio Choir, Marc-André Hamelin, the New York Philharmonic, and the Metropolitan Opera.
The media
Twilight of the unwoke guys
by James Bowman
On The Clinton Affair & on the Jim Acosta lawsuit.
Books
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Notebook
Making book in Russia
by Jeffrey Meyers
On the subject of gambling in canonical Russian literature.
Notes & Comments
If Orwell were alive today . . .
by The Editors
On a faculty petition at Williams College.