It is with some astonishment that we realize that with this issue we conclude our thirty-fourth volume. When Hilton Kramer and Samuel Lipman started The New Criterion back in the early 1980s, they frankly acknowledged that it was a brash experiment: a cultural review that was at once a champion of high modernism and traditional values. It seemed to many to be a contradiction in terms. And yet here we are on the eve of our thirty-fifth season. We could never have achieved this milestone if it were not for the small but growing band of readers who understand the importance of robust cultural criticism to the health of a democratic society more and more inured to politically correct intellectual conformity. Thank you, all. As we end another season, we would like to pay homage to the institutions and individuals whose leadership has made our work possible. In particular, we want to mention the late, lamented John M. Olin Foundation, which was there at the creation of The New Criterion and which supported our work for decades. The Sarah Scaife Foundation and the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundations have likewise been essential partners. We are more grateful than we can say for their stalwart and enlightened support. Writing this gives us an opportunity to pay special homage to Michael W. Grebe, for many years the head of the Bradley Foundation, who is retiring this month. Mike’s visionary leadership at Bradley has helped countless worthy enterprises, not least The New Criterion, and we are proud and grateful to salute his many important labors on behalf of American culture. In recent years, Olin, Scaife, and Bradley have been joined by other partisans of permanent things. The late Donald Kahn intervened at a critical moment to provide generous and essential support for more than a decade. This year, in addition to acknowledging the key support of a few anonymous donors—you know who you are—we want to mention our Editors’ Circle donors The Achelis and Bodman Foundations, The Carson-Myre Charitable Foundation, Arthur Cinader, Daniel D’Aniello, The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, Richard Hough, The J. M. Foundation, Virginia James, The Marcus Foundation, The Fred Maytag Family Foundation, James Piereson, The Paul E. Singer Foundation, The Thomas W. Smith Foundation, George Yeager, and Helen Zell. We thank you all for your continued support of our endeavors. The New Criterion could not exist without you.

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