Populism, V: A bulwark against tyranny
by James Piereson
On the structural safegaurds of the U.S. Constitution
Features
Introduction: free speech & the academy
by Roger Kimball
On the symposium hosted by The New Criterion and the Social Affairs Unit in London.
Anti-knowledge is power
by Andrew C. McCarthy
On reason and its discontents.
Seven types of suppression
by Peter W. Wood
On the left-wing playbook for campus politics.
Inverting academic freedom
by Peter Bonilla
On the rise of government oversight of speech on campuses.
Medical correctness
by Anthony Daniels
On the creep of P.C. culture into medical scholarship.
The intersectionality of fools
by Dominic Green
On the disparagement of Israel at American universities.
Ideology as a vocation
by Daniel Johnson
On the echoes of German intellectual history in today’s academic troubles.
The Rhodes affair
by Nigel Biggar
On the movement to cleanse campuses of offending historical figures.
Poems
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Letters from the World
After the Great Flood of Florence
by Marco Grassi
On the wreckage and recovery of art works in the Arno River flood of 1966.
Theater
Old friends
by Kyle Smith
On Les Liaisons Dangereuses at the Booth Theatre, Natasha Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 at the Imperial Theatre, and Oh, Hello at the Lyceum Theatre.
Art
Kerry James Marshall at Met Breuer
by Karen Wilkin
On the first retrospective exhibition of the Chicago painter.
Exhibition note
by Mario Naves
On “Agnes Martin” at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
Exhibition note
by Franklin Einspruch
On “Klimt and the Women of Vienna’s Golden Age, 1900–1918” at the Neue Galerie.
Gallery chronicle
by James Panero
On art in the age of Trump.
Music
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On L’Amour de loin performed by the Metropolitan Opera, a performance by the pianist Fazil Say and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, and other recent classical music performances.
The media
Faking it and making it
by James Bowman
On the tricky definition of “fake news.”
Books
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Notebook
The Italian job
by David Pryce-Jones
On the Italian referendum and the unraveling of Europe.
Notes & Comments
Why the Left hates tolerance
by The Editors
On the shallowness of left-wing “inclusivity.”
Elsewhere in the republic of letters
by The Editors
On the petty iconoclasm of today’s campuses.
Meanwhile, at The New York Times
by The Editors
A tidbit of the shifty partnership between the newspaper and the Clinton campaign.
Fidel Castro, 1926—2016
by The Editors
On reactions to the passing of the Cuban dictator.