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

Warren Frye on “The Last Peasant War,” by Jakub S. Beneš.

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

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

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 ...

On Ralston College’s excellence in classics. There is more to Ralston than Greek and Latin. But nothing sets Ralston apart more than its professors’ ability to take young people who do not know these ...

“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 ...

On the West’s latest self-flagellation.

In his Lives of the Artists, Vasari credits Giotto as having no less than the status of nature itself: deserving to be imitated by painters everywhere. Giotto’s revolutionary fresco cycle in the ...