Whatever happened to the Regency gentleman—or rake—who whiled away his days drinking, flirting, and generally getting up to no good? Perhaps his spirit died with Simon Raven (1927–2001), one of the ...

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

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

On Vasily Grossman, Richard Estes, seaside art, William Faulkner, museum gardens & more from the world of culture. Richard Estes, Escalator at Penn Station, 2023, Oil on panel, Schoelkopf Gallery.

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

On a recital by the pianist Alexandre Kantorow in Carnegie Hall.

One of the two men, standing before the other, had a light complexion, a long, straight nose, and a long beard. This was the forty-three-year-old Abdullah ibn Haroun al Rashid, known by his regnal ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...