It is critical to remember that the gentleman’s bequest was not simply an investment or display of wealth. It represented a ...

I recently interviewed the novel’s author, Jennifer Hofmann, who lives in Berlin. Mark Judge: First of all, tell me a little ...

The rural–urban divide has been a persistent and compelling theme throughout human history, but in our day the class of person once thought of as the land-tilling peasant has almost completely died ...

De Kooning was born in Rotterdam in 1904. As a youth he studied for eight years at a conservative academy of art, where the curriculum included De Stijl due to the Dutch art movement’s practical ...

Suzanna Murawski on “Ravelstein,” Marsden Hartley & a new canvas adhesive.

For example, the latest Michelin Guide considers the best two restaurants in Washington, D.C., to be minibar and Jônt, ...

Editors’ note: The following is an edited version of remarks delivered at The New Criterion’s gala on April 24, 2025, honoring Heather Mac Donald with the twelfth Edmund Burke Award for Service to ...

“Modern American conservatism has two founding fathers: Edmund Burke and William F. Buckley Jr.” The description is Charles Krauthammer’s. There are other paeans. David Brooks said of Buckley, “He ...

On The Technological Republic, by Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska. To Alex Karp, the ceo of Palantir Technologies, and Nicholas Zamiska, the company’s head of corporate affairs, this episode ...

Editors’ note: It is difficult to believe that it was ten years ago last month that Hilton Kramer, the founding editor of The New Criterion, died, aged eighty-four. Time really does seem to speed up ...