In Life and in Legend,” by Heather Blurton ...

Thomas Philbrick on a performance of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.

Mystery Cults in Ancient Greece and Rome,” by Damien Stone.

Jay Nordlinger on a podcast with music from hither and yon.

The book is a tale of what can go wrong when an old New York WASP family comes up against the forces of cultural ...

On September 30, a federal district court judge in Boston upheld Harvard’s use of racial preferences in undergraduate admissions against the challenge that they discriminate against Asian-Americans.

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. The enduring legacy of the Greek philosophers was therefore the primacy of things, and Western thought followed ...

Editors’ note: The following is an edited version of remarks delivered for The New Criterion’s seventh annual Circle Lecture on September 18, 2025. On November 18, 1956, Nikita Khrushchev, the first ...

On Plato and the Tyrant, by James Romm. Plato and the Tyrantis in fact the story of how Plato attempted to instruct not one but three Syracusan tyrants: Dionysius the Elder, who died in 367; his heir, ...

Songs of the heart, etc. This episode is about songs of the heart. There is one from Russia, performed two diffe ...