To return to the question posed at the beginning: is socialism a hate crime? The record speaks for itself: socialism is a ...

Still, it is worth noting that some choices have really pushed boundaries. In 1998, ADS members voted for the prefix “e-”; in ...

A review of a new production of I puritani might begin with the production—the stage direction, the set design, etc. Or it ...

Anatoly Grablevsky on “Monet and Venice,” at the Brooklyn Museum of Art.

On “Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature,” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Trilling belonged to perhaps the last generation of academics who believed that they had something of general ...

In his “Petition to be buried on the beach at Sète,” Georges Brassens, another native of that windy little port town south of Montpellier, asks the “good master” Paul Valéry to pardon his proposal for ...

David Fromkin was a lawyer, professor, and historian. He was renowned for his chronicling of the history of the Middle East and the Ottoman Empire.

Weekly recommendations from the Editors on what to read, see, and hear in the world of culture.

Sally Quinn won’t return my emails. Perhaps Quinn, the doyenne of Washington, D.C., and the widow of the Washington Post legend Ben Bradlee, is overwrought. As she recently lamented in The New York ...