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The Western way of reason
by Victor Davis Hanson
On the intellectual legacy of ancient Greece and Rome.
The lost world of the Founding Fathers
by James Piereson
On the life & work of the late historian Gordon S. Wood.
The personal myth of a National Treasure
by D. J. Taylor
On Enough Said, by Alan Bennett.
Philosophy as sanity
by Jacob Howland
On the essay “Mile-High Meditation,” by the late philosopher Eva Brann.
A rich friendship
by Pat Rogers
On Friends Until the End: Edmund Burke and Charles Fox in the Age of Revolution, by James Grant.
The paradox of poetry in the modern age
by David Solway
On the stagnation of contemporary poetry.
Punic posterity
by Barry Strauss
On Carthage: A New History, by Eve MacDonald.
The Biennale barcarolle
by Philip Rylands
On the controversies of the 2026 Venice Biennale.
Back to the Seventies
by Bruce Bawer
On The Revolutionists: The Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s, by Jason Burke.
Remembering “200 Years of American Sculpture”
by Eric Gibson
On the Whitney Museum’s U.S. bicentennial exhibition.
Shadows and symbolism
by Paul du Quenoy
On a new production of Die Frau ohne Schatten, by Richard Strauss, at the Aix-en-Provence Festival.
The Critic’s Notebook
by the Editors
On Israeli military strategy, stonemasonry, the Declaration of Independence, a 9/11 memorial concert & more from the world of culture.
Poems
Another man’s treasure
by Steve Knepper
Letter from Budapest
Mahler on the Danube
by Stephen E. Benko
On a performance of Mahler’s Third Symphony by the Budapest Festival Orchestra.
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On the difficulty of music criticism.
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On the history of The Saturday Book.
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The illusions of Zurbarán
by Karen Wilkin
On “Zurbarán” at the National Gallery, London.
Cross-Channel propaganda & enigmata
by Sean McGlynn
On “The Bayeux Tapestry” at the British Museum, London.
Whistler’s Dixie
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On “James McNeill Whistler” at Tate Britain, London.
American nature
by James Panero
On a pair of exhibitions at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Catskill, New York.
Exhibition note
by Mario Naves
On “The Avant-Garde World. City, Nature, Universe, Human” at the National Gallery–Alexandros Soutsos Museum, Athens.
Exhibition note
by Anatoly Grablevsky
On “Metamorphoses: Ovid and the Arts” at the Galleria Borghese, Rome.
Music
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On recent performances at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center & the Fisher Center at Bard.
The media
Of lost wits and nitwits
by James Bowman
On the media’s coverage of the Democratic Socialists of America.
Books
The universe of Church
by Michele H. Bogart
On Glorious Country, by Victoria Johnson.
Auden anxiety
by Paul Dean
On Auden, by Peter Ackroyd.
Artistic liberties
by Paul Dicken
On The Republic of Love: Opera & Political Freedom, by Martha C. Nussbaum.
Victim framing
by Robert G. Ingram
On On the Altar, by Jonathan Sheehan.
Knickerbocker notes
by Brooke Allen
On A Washington Irving Sketch Book, by Phillip Lopate.
Oceangoing
by Jeremy Black
On Driven by the Monsoons: Through the Indian Ocean and the Seas of China, by Barry Cunliffe.
Keeping up appearances
by Henrik Bering
On The Masquerade: A History of Extravagance and Intrigue, by Meghan Kobza.
Notebook
Transit troubles
by John Steele Gordon
On the trials and tribulations of the astronomer Guillaume Le Gentil.
The New Criterion at forty-five
by the Editors
On a special anniversary season of the magazine.
From the ashes
by the Editors
On The Counterrevolution, by Victor Davis Hanson.
Daniel Oliver, 1939–2026
by the Editors
On the late policymaker.