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NEW YORK, April 23, 2014—Professor Donald Kagan, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Classics at Yale University, will receive the second Edmund Burke Award for Service to Culture and Society at The New Criterion’s gala tonight in New York City. The event benefits The New Criterion, an influential monthly review of the arts and intellectual life, and the award, which was first presented to Dr. Henry Kissinger in 2012, gives homage to the inspiration provided by Edmund Burke, the eighteenth-century political philosopher.

Professor Kagan will be the guest of honor and will be delivering remarks on "Artists and Politics."

"In his tenure as a teacher and scholar at Yale, his vigorous occupancy of the Deanship of Yale College, and his long career as a public intellectual, Donald Kagan has embodied the true and robust liberalism of Edmund Burke, that liberalism which is essentially conservative of the achievements of civilization in the face of its many enemies an detractors”, remarked Roger Kimball, the Editor and Publisher of The New Criterion. "He has stood as a beacon of sanity in the tenebrous swamp of a spurious and intellectually sophomoric political correctness . The Editors of The New Criterion are as honored as they are delighted that Donald Kagan is the second recipient of the magazine's Edmund Burke Award for Service to Culture and Society."

About The New Criterion

The New Criterion (www.newcriterion.com) is a New York-based monthly literary magazine and journal of artistic and cultural criticism, edited by Roger Kimball. It was founded in 1982 by Hilton Kramer, former art critic for The New York Times who passed away in March 2012, and Samuel Lipman, a pianist and music critic. The New Criterion draws inspiration and its name from The Criterion, a British literary magazine edited by T. S. Eliot from 1922 to 1939. For over three decades, it has featured criticism of poetry, theatre, art, music, the media, and books from America's leading commentators.

Since its inception, the magazine has been the home to many of the smartest minds in cultural journalism including Professor Kagan, Dr. Henry Kissinger, Mark Steyn, Andrew Roberts, Theodore Dalrymple, Joseph Epstein, Denis Donoghue, William F. Buckley Jr., Andrew C. McCarthy, and Charles Murray.

The Times Literary Supplement has said "The New Criterion is probably more consistently worth reading than any other magazine in English." The Wall Street Journal has said "it operates as a refuge for a civilizing element in short supply in contemporary America: honest criticism" and calls The New Criterion "the best art magazine and provocative force in other cultural areas."

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