November 2020
Keywords: hoist, petard
On how Princeton’s crusade against systemic racism has backfired.
Issues
Volume 39, Number 3 / November 2020
Notes & Comments
Features
November 2020
The Founders’ priceless legacy
The New Criterion’s Visiting Critic delivers the second annual Circle Lecture.
November 2020
One hundred years of “We”
On the legacy of Yevgeny Zamyatin’s seminal dystopian novel.
November 2020
Taking leave of the socialism of fools
On the echoes of fascism in the critics of Zionism.
November 2020
Liberals on trial: Rebecca West & Alistair Cooke
On Rebecca West’s appraisal of the anti-liberal “liberalism” of Alistair Cooke.
Poems
November 2020
To a snail
November 2020
The horsemen
November 2020
Mezzogiorno
Letter from Plymouth
November 2020
Like a rock
On the four-hundredth anniversary of the Pilgrims’ landing at Plymouth Rock.
Reflections
November 2020
Killing time with Agatha Christie
On revisiting the works of the British mystery writer.
Reconsiderations
November 2020
A sergeant abroad
On the American socialite and expatriate Stuart Preston.
Art
November 2020
Pollock, Guggenheim & the “Mural”
On a key work from Jackson Pollock’s early career.
November 2020
Exhibition note
On “Jordan Casteel: Within Reach” at the New Museum, New York.
November 2020
Exhibition note
On “George Bellows: Sport, Leisure, and Lithography” at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond.
November 2020
Peripatetic president
On the history of Horatio Greenough’s controversial George Washington statue.
Music
November 2020
Livestream chronicle
A review of recent livestreams from the “Met Stars Live in Concert” series.
The media
November 2020
Of men & manners
On the media’s view of “manners” in the presidential debate.
Fiction chronicle
November 2020
The slow & the dead & other authors
A review of The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas by Machado de Assis, The Dominant Animal and Aug 9—Fog by Kathryn Scanlan & The Caretaker by Doon Arbus.
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