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

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

What is New York’s greatest unrealized work of art? An argument can be made for Riverside Playground. This sprawling sculptural landscape, designed for what today remains an unremarkable hillside in ...

But it would be as “compleatly” off the mark to explain ham radio by its vestigial utility as it would have been for Izaak ...

On Giorgio Morandi, Bruckner, summer cottages, Communist China & more from the world of culture.

The Eurasian steppe is famous for being the wellspring and thoroughfare of conquerors. It was from there that the Huns ...

It is time to dip into that cabinet marked “Things are always worse than you thought.” Like many other sentinels of civilization, The New Criterion has inveighed early and often about “declining ...

It is remarkable that, despite its long record of failure, socialism is now more popular than ever among college students and in progressive precincts of the Democratic Party, at least judging by the ...

Weekly recommendations from the Editors on what to read, see, and hear in the world of culture.

Last week, in the decision for Louisiana v. Callais, the Supreme Court narrowed the reach of the Voting Rights Act so that it no longer requires state legislatures to consider race in drawing ...