An overview of “Free Speech under Threat: How Anglosphere Values Are Being Undermined by Fear, Political Correctness, and Misplaced Concerns about Privacy,” a symposium organized jointly by The New Criterion and London’s Social Affairs Unit.
Congress wants to amend the First Amendment.
The fight for free speech will never end.
One of the most damaging forms of censorship is self-imposed.
A damaging semantic shift.
How to protect speech when the freedom is abused.
Relentless regulation destroys the necessary conditions for free speech.
Tracing the history of threats to free speech.
Ukraine’s situation continues to decline.
On the Irish poet and essayist.
Reviews of Sticks and Bones and Pitbulls.
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Reviews of “El Greco in New York” at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, “El Greco at the National Gallery and Washington-Area Collections: A 400th Anniversary Celebration,” and “El Greco at The Frick Collection.”
On “William Glackens” at The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia.
On “Claire Seidl and Kim Uchiyama: Plain Sight, Selected Paintings, Prints and Photographs” at Fox Gallery NYC, Eleventh Street Arts at Grand Central Atelier, “Tom Goldenberg: Landscapes” at The Graduate Center of The City University of New York, and “Todd Gordon, Tom Goldenberg” at George Billis Gallery.
The San Francisco Symphony plays Samuel Adams, Jaap van Zweden guest conducts the New York Philharmonic, and more.
When irony is used as a tool by the powerful.
Review of Bacchae: Euripides translated by Robin Robertson and Oedipus at Colonus translated by David Mulroy.
on Understanding the Crash, edited by Gerald Frost
Remembering the poet, artist, and critic.
Notes & Comments
A vertically integrated digital mess
by The Editors
On the fall of The New Republic.
A tale of two hackings
by The Editors
Misplaced sympathy in recent hacking scandals.
Feminism & astrophysics redux
by The Editors
The feminist double standard.