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WEBThe New Criterion, edited by Roger Kimball, was founded in 1982 by the art critic Hilton Kramer and the pianist and music critic Samuel Lipman.A monthly review of the arts and intellectual life, The New Criterion began as an experiment in critical audacity—a publication devoted to engaging, in Matthew Arnold’s famous phrase, with “the best that has been thought and said.”
How much is too much? | The New Criterion
WEBJul 23, 2019 · Back in 1992, the American Alliance of Museums found that 36 percent of all museums in the United States charged an admission fee. By 2008, the AAM reported that only a third of all museums were free to the public, with the average ticket being $10 for adults. On a national basis, admissions make up between 2 and 4 …
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Hypatia | The New Criterion
WEBWhen the vile monks of Nitria butchered the chaste philosopher their new God triumphed, so it seemed: the old ones had forsaken her. This murder took place years ago, in March, anno domini 415, during the holy time of Lent. Alexandria was the scene. Hypatia the neoplatonist, while driving to her school to teach, was cornered by the filthy swarm who cursed her for a pagan bitch
The year that changed everything: 1968 | The New Criterion
WEBAfter 1968, Americans of the political elite began believing in group rights and equality of result. More important, before 1968 Americans believed in containing the Soviet Union and its allies—the forces known by the now-quaint term “world Communism. ”So seriously did they take this struggle that, for example, they built fallout shelters ...
Playing with Chips | The New Criterion
WEBH en ry “Chips” Channon (1897–1958) spent his life inventing himself as an aristocrat. He made no bones about it. More than mere social climbing, this can only have been a personality disorder of a harmless kind. A genial character when all was said and done, he added to the gaiety of the British nation.
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Lord Acton: in pursuit of first principles | The New Criterion
WEBAlmost fifty years ago, introducing my biography of Lord Acton, I wrote: “He is of this age, more than of his.He is, indeed, one of our great contemporaries.” A decade and a half later, in an essay on Acton, I described him as being “totally out of sorts with his times”—but I no longer ventured to claim him for our times.
The harbor | The New Criterion
WEBThe tiresome creak of the harbor— fishing sloops at anchor, trying their lines,. or the crestfallen wharf building, clapboards scoured of the last drip of paint,. its tin sinks, bigger than horse tubs, groaning with senatorial lobsters and rude spitting steamers. Perhaps just the bridge on its last legs,