Mene Ukueberuwa was the Hilton Kramer Fellow in Criticism at The New Criterion. Mene graduated from Dartmouth College in 2016 with a B.A. in Government, and previously served as Editor of The Dartmouth Review.
Articles by Mene Ukueberuwa View All
Books June 2017
Straighter things
A review of Out of the Ashes: Rebuilding American Culture by Anthony Esolen.
Books December 2016
The great debunking
A review of The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction by Mark Lilla.
Books October 2015
Working-class blues
A review of Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis by Robert D. Putnam.
Blog Posts by Mene Ukueberuwa View All
Jun 16, 2017
Week in review
Right-wing renaissance on campuses & over-reading Fitzgerald’s fatalism.
May 05, 2017
Week in review
A rare case for the supremacy of France & the messy market for Modiglianis.
Apr 28, 2017
Week in review
Coleridge’s prophetic foresight & sound without a signal at the New-York Historical Society.
May 28, 2021
Mene Ukueberuwa on doing journalism well
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On May 26, 2021, Mene Ukueberuwa addressed a gathering of the Young Friends of The New Criterion in New York. Listen to his remarks on the state of American journalism and what it means to do journalism well. Mene is introduced by Roger Kimball, Editor of The New Criterion, with prefatory remarks by Executive Editor James Panero.
Mene works as an editorial writer at The Wall Street Journal, where he covers the economy, taxes and regulation, and other hot topics. He joined the Journal in 2018 after stints at City Journal and The New Criterion, where he was a Hilton Kramer Fellow.