George Loomis on a performance of Beethoven’s “Fidelio” by the Cleveland Orchestra.

What makes Wajda unique is that he did what so many Western filmmakers would not: he mocked, satirized, and criticized ...

Earlier this month, The Guardian issued a correction to an article about the Gold Medal of Philology, bestowed every five years by the International Society of Philology (ISP). Having initially ...

The electoral collapse of the Labour and Conservative Parties in the United Kingdom has caused journalists and opinion columnists once again to blame all of the country’s problems on the 2016 decision ...

My father dropped out of Harvard during the Cold War. He had planned to sail around the world in search of himself. Instead, he joined the army to avoid being drafted. Lucky for me. The ship he was ...

The Eurasian steppe is famous for being the wellspring and thoroughfare of conquerors. It was from there that the Huns emerged to ravage the moribund Roman Empire. Centuries later, the Mongols under ...

On Sparta, the American Revolution, stone, Carol Bove & more from the world of culture.

Watch the 2026 Edmund Burke Award recipient, Harvey Mansfield, give remarks on “What use is political philosophy?” at The New Criterion’s annual gala. Read his ...

Charles Willson Peale, George Washington at Princeton (detail), 1779, Oil on canvas, The Middleton Family Collection. “A Nation of Artists,” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (through July 5, 2027): ...

On the most unfairly neglected framer. Who is the most unfairly neglected American Founding Father? You might think that none can be unfairly neglected, so many books about that distinguished coterie ...