That’s all done for us, a kind of emotional outsourcing we might call “moral kitsch.” For Clement Greenberg, kitsch is ...

The Editors of The New Criterion are pleased to announce that David Lehman is the winner of the twenty-fifth New Criterion ...

On Christopher Wheeldon’s The Winter’s Tale at the Metropolitan Opera House.

La Bayadère opens with a tiger hunt, during which the warrior Solor sends a secret message to his love Nikiya, the temple ...

“The Birth of Modern Choice: Where life is lived” Daniel T. Rodgers, The Hedgehog Review ...

While admiring his luscious renditions of deli or haberdashery counters, typical museumgoers (and even some art critics) are ...

Jay Nordlinger in conversation with Daniel Asia.The Tin Angel is a new opera by Daniel Asia, the American composer born in 1953. It is based on a novel of the same name by Paul Pines (1941–2018).

The only rare book I have ever owned is a copy of the Aeneid VII–XII, the third of a three-volume set of Virgil’s works, bound in vellum and printed by Abraham Wolfgang in Amsterdam in 1680. Before me ...

BR Emanuel Leutze, Washington Crossing the Delaware, 1851, Oil on canvas, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York ...

One photograph, however, was taken by a Coast Guard petty officer from the vantage point of a boat on the water, looking up ...

On The Gulag Archipelago at fifty.New to The New Criterion? Become a subscriber to receive ten print issues and gain immediate access to our online archive spanning more than four decades of art and ...

On the specter of communism. Refurbishing the old ideology was easy. It was only necessary to substitute other, more up-to-date oppositions for “proletariat” and “bourgeoisie” so the world could still ...