Introduction: populism & its critics
by Roger Kimball
An introduction to “Populism & its critics,” a conference organized jointly by The New Criterion and London’s Social Affairs Unit.
Features
How should conservatives respond to the populist challenge?
by George H. Nash
On populism’s challenge to the conservative movement.
Populists in power
by Andrew C. McCarthy
On the election of Donald Trump and the first year of his presidency.
Why populism fails
by James Piereson
On a more precise understanding of the challenges that populist movements face.
Populists & the past
by Douglas Carswell
On three historical examples of populist uprisings.
Placing populism
by Jeremy Black
On the role of population growth as a key element of populism.
Transatlantic misunderstandings about populism
by Daniel Johnson
On the perception of populist movements in the United States and in Europe.
Poems
Theater
Music, money, mortality
by Kyle Smith
On The Band’s Visit at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, Junk at the Vivian Beaumont Theater & Shadowlands at the Acorn Theatre.
Art
Hockney at the Metropolitan
by Karen Wilkin
On “David Hockney” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Exhibition note
by Mario Naves
On “Laura Owens” at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Exhibition note
by Leann Davis Alspaugh
On “Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting” at the National Gallery of Art.
Gallery chronicle
by James Panero
On “The Sculpture of Gonzalo Fonseca” at The Noguchi Museum, “Lois Dodd: Selected Paintings” at Alexandre Gallery, “Kenneth Noland: Circles, Early + Late, 1959–1962, 1999–2002” at Yares Art & “Elizabeth Murray: Painting in the ’80s” at Pace.
Music
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On Daniil Trifonov at Carnegie Hall; Massenet’s Thaïs and the Verdi Requiem at the Metropolitan Opera; a new piece by John Luther Adams, performed by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center & Sharon Isbin at the 92nd Street Y.
The media
Putting down the Big Dog
by James Bowman
On the Left’s strategic reconsideration of their past support of Bill Clinton.
Books
Most popular
Notebook
Vincent Joseph Scully, 1920–2017
by Michael J. Lewis
Remembering the life of America’s great historian of architecture.
Notes & Comments
Feminist first dates
by the Editors
On “intersectionality” and sexual politics.
Rigor mortis
by the Editors
On the hetero-patriarchal trappings of “academic rigor” at Purdue.