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

Bennett Tucker on Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin,” at the Haifa Auditorium.

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

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

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

New Criterion executive editor and New York Post columnist James Panero joins Cam to discuss his experience in applying for and receiving a NYC carry permit, as well as the hurdles he continues to ...

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 ...

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 ...