New to The New Criterion? Become a subscriber to receive ten print issues and gain immediate access to our online archive spanning more than four decades of art and cultural criticism.On The Gulag Archipelago at fifty.

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Dec 30, 2024 · Elizabeth Eck on a recent concert of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Dima Slobodeniouk.

Orphic obscurity by Karen Wilkin On “Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris, 1910–1930,” at the Guggenheim Museum, New York.

On Mondrian, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Henry Hobson Richardson, ancient moneymaking & more from the world of culture.

Dec 20, 2024 · Suzanna Murawski on Rousseau, Rothko & American literature.

Jan 22, 2025 · Jay Nordlinger on musical performances at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall & more.

Jan 22, 2025 · I t seems like déjà vu all over again. Last month in this space we wrote about British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s apparent embrace of various dystopian novels in formulating his policies for Great Britain. Most obvious was the government’s embrace of the totalitarian principles laid down in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, especially regarding curbs on free speech and the ...

Jan 22, 2025 · W he n in the dying days of 2024, the former president Jimmy Carter also expired, aged one hundred, the considered judgment on his presidency of many media observers agreed with mine, as expressed in these pages almost two years ago when he entered hospice care (see “The last of America” in The New Criterion of April 2023). On that occasion, I wrote that Mr. Carter was a good man but a bad ...

New to The New Criterion? Become a subscriber to receive ten print issues and gain immediate access to our online archive spanning more than four decades of art and cultural criticism.On the Labour Party & assisted dying.