Seldom can any author have taken Horace’s dictum that the artist should delight and instruct as seriously as did Bernard Shaw. The notion of art for art’s sake, the guiding principle for so many ...

(1974), the Supreme Court further broadened the group who could be maligned by the media to include “limited-purpose public ...

The other program, the subject of this review, appealed to more advanced balletomanes—works by Gianna Reisen, Ulysses Dove, ...

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Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. “If we concede that human life can be governed by reason, then the possibility of life is destroyed,” the book’s ...

Jay Nordlinger on a performance of “Carmina Burana” at the Teatro Massimo.

On Simon Raven, the art of the American West, and Georges Perec.

Publishing in the Western world is an enterprise whose success depends on freedom of expression enjoyed in Western countries. Reputable publishers know this, and do not lightly accept restraints on ...

David Platzer on the life of Lady Diana Cooper.

At least, that is, until now, with the advent of the Pascal Institute, in the Netherlands, with which St. John’s has formed a ...

The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of supreme strength, of a life of maximum vigor, which has also been called the ideal of aesthetic greatness. That life is in truth the ...

Most people reading this have strong stomachs, so let me lay it out as baldly as I can: Much of what we loosely call the western world will not survive this century, and much of it will effectively ...