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Charles Péguy - The New Criterion
WEBIt is that which introduces uneasiness, which opens the door to commotion. —Charles Péguy, “Note on M. Bergson”. Truth’s pedagogue, braving an entrenched class of fools and scoundrels, children of the world, his eyes caged and hostile behind glass—still Péguy said that Hope is a little child.
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.”
Leninthink | The New Criterion
WEBEditors’ note: The following is an edited version of remarks delivered at The New Criterion ’s inaugural Circle Lecture on September 25, 2019. To view an exclusive video of James Panero and Gary Saul Morson in conversation on “Leninthink,” click here and consider joining The New Criterion’s Circle. To buy this and other classic New Criterion essays in stand-alone print format, see ...
June 2022 - The New Criterion
WEBOct 2, 2024 · by William Logan. On new poetry by Lorna Goodison, Frank Bidart, Amanda Gorman, Anne Carson, Kevin Young & Tracy K. Smith.
“Two Iphigenias at Aix,” by George Loomis - The New Criterion
WEBAug 21, 2024 · George Loomis. On Christoph Willibald Gluck’s Iphegénie en Aulide and Iphegénie en Tauride at the Aix-en-Provence Festival. A fascinating aspect of Samson— the lost opera from the 1730s with music by Jean Philippe Rameau and words by Voltaire that inspired the creation of a new opera at the Aix …
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The triumph of Thomas Sowell | The New Criterion
WEBIn 1930, the year he was born into a black family in Gastonia, North Carolina, the Great Depression was gathering strength. And Jim Crow was in full force, so he seldom encountered white people in his early years. As Riley explains, “He’d been turned away from restaurants and housing because of his skin color.
Unprecedented - The New Criterion
WEBMichael Anton is a Lecturer in Politics and a Research Fellow at Hillsdale College’s Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies in Washington, D.C. He served on the National Security Council Staff in the administration of President Donald J. Trump. This article originally appeared in The New Criterion, Volume 40 Number 4, on page 4 ...