Topic: “Founding Fathers”

The Critic’s Notebook

On the American Dream, the English imagination, a Saint-Saëns opera, “America’s only newspaper” & more from the world of culture.

On the founding principles of the United States.

On the life and legacy of “the First American.”

The New Criterion’s Visiting Critic delivers the second annual Circle Lecture.

The New Criterion’s Visiting Critic delivers the second annual Circle Lecture, followed by an interview with Executive Editor James Panero.

A review of Robert R. Reilly’s America on Trial: A Defense of the Founding.

A review of The Political Theory of the American Founding by Thomas G. West.

On our most neglected Founding Father.