Fifty Years of Dreams” at the Frist Art Museum, Nashville, Tennessee.

On September 30, a federal district court judge in Boston upheld Harvard’s use of racial preferences in undergraduate admissions against the challenge that they discriminate against Asian-Americans.

On diplomatic reception rooms, connoisseurs, Emmet Gowin’s photography, Art Deco buildings & more from the world of culture.

This season of 250th-anniversary commemorations provides a perfect platform for broadcasting the merits of the American project, especially to youth whose educators may be concerned more with the ...

On “Caravaggio 2025” at the Gallerie Nazionali Barberini Corsini, Rome.

Walking to Carnegie Hall, I called a friend—a musician friend—and said, “I’m going to say something we could have said in the 1980s or ’90s: I’m going to hear Renée and Tom. How ’bout that?” I was ...

On Thomas Hutchinson, the Sun Valley Music Festival, early music, nineteenth-century architecture, Homer’s Odyssey & more from the world of culture.

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series.

Blanche Lazzell (1878–1956), whose works are the subject of an exhibition at the Albany Institute of History & Art, was a great American improbability. (The exhibition closes August 2, so hasten to ...

The Muse-inspired poet Hesiod, who lived very long ago, but still in the middle of things, sang of cosmic beginnings and human ends. His Theogony relates that everything comes from Chaos: a primal, ...

Editors’ note: The following is an edited version of remarks delivered at The New Criterion’s gala on April 22, 2026, honoring Harvey Mansfield with the thirteenth Edmund Burke Award for Service to ...