Civilization & tradition
by Allen C. Guelzo
On the fruits of Western culture.
Features
Classical patricide
by Victor Davis Hanson
On the state of the classics in higher education.
9/11 twenty years later
by Andrew C. McCarthy
On jihadism and the United States.
Turgenev’s liberal sensibility
by Gary Saul Morson
On Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev.
What America is
by C. Bradley Thompson
On the founding principles of the United States.
The invented exile of Edward Said
by Keith Windschuttle
On the life and writings of the post-colonial theorist.
Malicious Marcuse
by Anthony Daniels
On the “tolerance” of Herbert Marcuse.
Baudelaire’s Modernism
by Dana Gioia
On the poet of Les Fleurs du mal.
Doomed to succeed
by George Gilder
On Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe by Niall Ferguson.
Culture as counterculture
by Adam Kirsch
On changes in the cultural climate.
Poems
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Reflections
New worlds
by James Panero
On a discovery of fifteenth-century Venetian glass beads in Alaska.
Theater
Ladies’ nights
by Kyle Smith
On Enemy of the People at the Park Avenue Armory; Get On Your Knees at the Cherry Lane Theatre; and Fruma-Sarah (Waiting in the Wings) at the Cell.
Art
Cézanne’s drawings at MOMA
by Karen Wilkin
On “Cézanne Drawing” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Face-to-face with the Medici
by Marco Grassi
On “The Medici: Portraits & Politics, 1512–1570” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Sculptor in two dimensions
by Eric Gibson
On Barbara Hepworth: Art & Life by Eleanor Clayton.
Exhibition note
by Mario Naves
On “Shahzia Sikander: Extraordinary Realities” at The Morgan Library, New York.
Music
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On a livestream performance by the New York Philharmonic; an organ concert by Raymond Nagem at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine; a concert of piano music by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center; the National Youth Orchestra; and The Barber of Seville with Teatro Nuovo.
The media
Real words, real meanings
by James Bowman
On the changing meanings of common words.
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Postmemories of Salonica
by Dominic Green
On the Cohen family of Salonica.
Notes & Comments
Meditations at the crossroads
by The Editors
On The New Criterion’s fortieth anniversary.