Sex & power
On the Obama administration’s lavatory overreach.
Meanwhile, in Europe
On The Spectator’s celebration of free speech.
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In defense of dissidence
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Remarks delivered by Ayaan Hirsi Ali after she received The New Criterion’s fourth Edmund Burke Award for Service to Culture and Society.
A paper dragon (with teeth)
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On China’s fortunes and their relation to the rule of law.
Insubstantial pageants
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On the misdirection of Shakespeare’s Globe.
Mixing memory & desire
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On Patrick Modiano’s deliberate obscurantism.
Week in review
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August 05, 2016
A phony hate crime epidemic, and the benign habits of the upper class.
A morality tale for our times
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August 05, 2016
On a new production of Sweeney Todd at the Glimmerglass Festival.
Sonata on steady water
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August 04, 2016
On Bargemusic’s performance of Romantic composers on the East River.
Tanglewood dispatch No. 2
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August 04, 2016
More recent performances by the Boston Symphony Orchestra and various other artists and ensembles.
The Critic’s Notebook
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August 02, 2016
The drunken days of Westminster, the cunningness of Classical rhetoric, and more from the world of culture.
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The bright ghosts of antiquity by John Talbot
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The bright ghosts of antiquity by John Talbot
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The anti-historian by David Pryce-Jones
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The anti-historian by David Pryce-Jones
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The limits of universalism by Henry A. Kissinger
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The limits of universalism by Henry A. Kissinger
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Poetry & the silencing of art by Hilton Kramer
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Poetry & the silencing of art by Hilton Kramer
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Last of the Whigs: Churchill as historian by Robert Messenger
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Last of the Whigs: Churchill as historian by Robert Messenger
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On first reading “Paradise Lost” by Michael Auslin
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On first reading “Paradise Lost” by Michael Auslin
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In defense of dissidence by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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In defense of dissidence by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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Institutionalizing our demise: America vs. multiculturalism by Roger Kimball
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Institutionalizing our demise: America vs. multiculturalism by Roger Kimball
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Higher ed: an obituary
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Higher ed: an obituary
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Augustus & the birth of the West by Michael Auslin
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Augustus & the birth of the West by Michael Auslin
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The bright ghosts of antiquity by John Talbot
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The bright ghosts of antiquity by John Talbot
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A lesson in Newspeak by Daniel Hannan
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A lesson in Newspeak by Daniel Hannan
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How civilizations fall by Kenneth Minogue
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How civilizations fall by Kenneth Minogue
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What's wrong with equality? by Roger Kimball
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What's wrong with equality? by Roger Kimball
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In defense of dissidence by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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In defense of dissidence by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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Sex & power
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Sex & power
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The anti-historian by David Pryce-Jones
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The anti-historian by David Pryce-Jones
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Meanwhile, in Europe
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Meanwhile, in Europe
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Mixing memory & desire by Dominic Green
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Mixing memory & desire by Dominic Green
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In praise of subsidiarity by James Piereson
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In praise of subsidiarity by James Piereson
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The architect of the Reich by Michael J. Lewis
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The architect of the Reich by Michael J. Lewis
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Safe from “safe spaces”
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Safe from “safe spaces”
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Glaciers and sex
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Glaciers and sex
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Updike’s naked poetry by Brad Leithauser
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Updike’s naked poetry by Brad Leithauser
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The disease of theory:
“Crime & Punishment” at 150 by Gary Saul Morson
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The disease of theory:
“Crime & Punishment” at 150 by Gary Saul Morson
“Crime & Punishment” at 150 by Gary Saul Morson
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The new “Horror Victorianorum” by Michael J. Lewis
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The new “Horror Victorianorum” by Michael J. Lewis
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The intolerable dream by Gary Saul Morson
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The intolerable dream by Gary Saul Morson
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In defense of dissidence by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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In defense of dissidence by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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Institutionalizing our demise: America vs. multiculturalism by Roger Kimball
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Institutionalizing our demise: America vs. multiculturalism by Roger Kimball
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Remembering Robert Conquest by John O'Sullivan
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Remembering Robert Conquest by John O'Sullivan
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The architect of the Reich by Michael J. Lewis
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The architect of the Reich by Michael J. Lewis
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Safe from “safe spaces”
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Safe from “safe spaces”
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Glaciers and sex
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Glaciers and sex
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Updike’s naked poetry by Brad Leithauser
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Updike’s naked poetry by Brad Leithauser
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The disease of theory:
“Crime & Punishment” at 150 by Gary Saul Morson
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The disease of theory:
“Crime & Punishment” at 150 by Gary Saul Morson
“Crime & Punishment” at 150 by Gary Saul Morson
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The new “Horror Victorianorum” by Michael J. Lewis
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The new “Horror Victorianorum” by Michael J. Lewis
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The intolerable dream by Gary Saul Morson
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The intolerable dream by Gary Saul Morson
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In defense of dissidence by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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In defense of dissidence by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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Institutionalizing our demise: America vs. multiculturalism by Roger Kimball
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Institutionalizing our demise: America vs. multiculturalism by Roger Kimball
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Remembering Robert Conquest by John O'Sullivan
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Remembering Robert Conquest by John O'Sullivan
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