The New Criterion
WEBA monthly review of the arts & intellectual life. Operating The New Criterion and attendant events are the sole activities of the Foundation for Cultural Review, a 501(c)(3) organization as defined by the Internal Revenue Service.
How much is too much? | The New Criterion
WEBJul 23, 2019 · Back in 1992, the American Alliance of Museums found that 36 percent of all museums in the United States charged an admission fee. By 2008, the AAM reported that only a third of all museums were free to the public, with the average ticket being $10 for adults. On a national basis, admissions make up between 2 and 4 …
About | The New Criterion
WEBThe New Criterion, edited by Roger Kimball, was founded in 1982 by the art critic Hilton Kramer and the pianist and music critic Samuel Lipman.A monthly review of the arts and intellectual life, The New Criterion began as an experiment in critical audacity—a publication devoted to engaging, in Matthew Arnold’s famous phrase, with “the best that has been thought and said.”
The novel truth | The New Criterion
WEBT he Russian literary tradition, especially the realist novel associated with Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, made signal contributions to the self-understanding of modern man. This owes to the fact that its deepest subject is nothing less than the human soul and the “timeless questions” that confront all self-aware human beings.
A dearth of feeling | The New Criterion
WEBThe second in a series on “The future of the European past,”. V enice has the Piazza San Marco, Paris has the Eiffel Tower, and now Prague has the Charles Bridge: wide and pedestrianized, blackened with age—and suffused with the spirit of capitalism. There are buskers and hustlers along the bridge, and, every fifteen feet or so, someone ...
Restoring the lost consensus | The New Criterion
WEBEditors’ note: The following is adapted from Roger Kimball’s acceptance remarks at the Bradley Prize ceremony in Washington, D.C., on May 7, 2019. L oo king around the cultural landscape today, I conclude that we are in the midst of a sort of negative religious revival: let’s call it America’s First Great Awokening.. Evidence of our society’s wokeness—a false awakening sparked by ...
What revolution? | The New Criterion
WEBReaders of The New Criterion will know what revolution I was talking about (see “Revolutionism redux” in The New Criterion of September, October, and November 2019), though its manifestations in the impeachment fervor of 2019 were then only the latest signs of a process that began in the 1960s and achieved critical mass with the election of ...
The triumph of Thomas Sowell | The New Criterion
WEBSoon, Sowell was “rethinking the whole notion of government as a potentially benevolent force in the economy and society.”. He also couldn’t help noticing that his fellow bureaucrats did not care if the minimum wage helped workers. Their job was to enforce the laws. It was not to see if the laws did any good.
Pieces of hate - The New Criterion
WEBEight months arguing about two angry old men—hearing our own side praise us to the hilt while blaming every woe on the other—is time we don’t have to spend confronting our own difficulties. Historic declines in life expectancy, jaw-dropping rates of obesity, and rising truancy among students are just a few of the ways we the people are ...
Racism, Inc. | The New Criterion
WEBThe Ray Gates at Texas Christian University. What is it about the term “racism” that silences conversation and sends an anticipatory shudder of delight down the spines of politically correct vigilantes of virtue?Like the word “heretic” in an earlier age, “racism” is more weapon than word. Its primary effect is not to …
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