Arts & Culture: The New Criterion -December 2024
Tag Archives: Intellectual
Arts & Culture: The New Criterion -November 2024
The profundity of evil by Douglas Murray
Emily Dickinson at the post office by William Logan
Pevsner revised by Simon Heffer
“The Power Broker” in perspective by Myron Magnet
Arts & Culture: The New Criterion -October 2024
Democracy in America: a symposium
Tocqueville’s limitations by Glenn Ellmers
Democracy in America: an introduction by Roger Kimball
Our Athenian American democracy by Victor Davis Hanson
Tocqueville versus progressive democracy by Daniel J. Mahoney
The Washington octopus by James Piereson
Arts & Culture: The New Criterion – Sept 2024
Arresting scenes
On John Constable’s The Hay Wain & the foundations of the West.
We write as The New Criterion’s annual period of aestivation enters its home stretch. The cicadas are buzzing, the days are noticeably shorter, and the leaves—some of them—are already edged with brown. Certain summers feature quiet expanses of lazy days. This one was different. In July, Donald Trump, except for the tip of his right ear, dodged a would-be assassin’s bullet; Joe Biden dropped (or, we now know, was pushed) out of the 2024 presidential race but, as of this writing, remains president; Kamala Harris, Biden’s vice president, stepped into the vacancy and magically became the new candidate for president, choosing the Minnesota governor Tim Walz as her running mate.
The New Criterion – June 2024 Arts/Culture Preview
The New Criterion – The June 2024 issue features:
Protecting America’s promise
On combating anti-Semitism & anti-Americanism.
All the rage
On White Rural Rage by Tom Schaller & Paul Waldman.
The masterpiece of our time
On The Gulag Archipelago at fifty.
Building Palm Beach
On the town’s history & architecture.
The New Criterion – April 2024 Arts/Culture Preview
The New Criterion – The April 2024 issue features:
Poetry a special section
Black poetry by William Logan
Shakespeare’s words by Amit Majmudar
Bachmann: the unspeakable spoken by Peter Filkins
The new & the old by Katie Hartsock
The answer to Lord Chandos by Pascal Quignard
New translations by Ryan Choi, Frederick Amrine, Patrick Whalen & Beverley Bie Brahic
Book Review Podcasts: Nicholas Buccola (“The Fire Is Upon Us”) Discusses A Great Intellectual Debate In 1965 (NY Times)
In 1965, James Baldwin, by then internationally famous, faced off against William F. Buckley Jr., one of the leading voices of American conservatism, in a debate hosted by the Cambridge Union in England. The debate proposition before the house was: “The American dream is at the expense of the American Negro.”
Nicholas Buccola’s “The Fire Is Upon Us” tells the story of that intellectual prizefight as well as the larger story of Buckley’s and Baldwin’s lives.
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