Those of us who mark the music have a duty to share it with younger generations and take every opportunity to expose children to classical music, by playing recordings, taking them to live concerts, ...
On Timaeus in Paradise: Metaphors and Beauty from Plato to Dante and Beyond, by Piero Boitani.
Beyond the hyperbole, bad-faith arguments, and elitist bigotry is the question of how successful the president’s many cultural and architectural projects wi ...
On “The Art of Transmitting: The Antoine Béal Collection” and “The Marcille Chardin Family” at the Orléans Fine Arts Museum.
The Rautavaara work was Cantus Arcticus, written for the Arctic University of Oulu. It is also known as the “Concerto for ...
On Jane Austen, Russian composers, British architecture, Russell Kirk & more from the world of culture.
Paul du Quenoy on a new production of “Parsifal,” at the San Francisco Opera.
Democrats won recent elections in New York City, New Jersey, and Virginia by calling attention to the “affordability crisis”—the claim that prices are too high and stretching the budgets of most ...
On September 30, a federal district court judge in Boston upheld Harvard’s use of racial preferences in undergraduate admissions against the challenge that they discriminate against Asian-Americans.
Editors’ note: The following is an edited version of remarks delivered for The New Criterion’s seventh annual Circle Lecture on September 18, 2025. On November 18, 1956, Nikita Khrushchev, the first ...