Paul du Quenoy on a new production of “Die Frau ohne Schatten,” by Richard Strauss, at the Aix-en-Provence Festival.

Now, neither classics nor philology is what it used to be. And the combination—classical philology—is in evident trouble. The ...

On a new production of Wagner’s Die Walküre, at the Bavarian State Opera.

On Israeli military strategy, stonemasonry, the Declaration of Independence, a 9/11 memorial concert & more from the world of culture.

I met the Brazilian philosopher Olavo de Carvalho more than twenty years ago when he came to the United States in what seemed like his transition into intellectual and political networks north of the ...

It is a great irony that at a time when Facebook and Twitter are closing accounts of conservatives for allegedly promoting “hate,” and conservative speakers are banned from college campuses for (as it ...

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 ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. On first looking into “The colorblind bard,” I felt like some watcher of the skies when an old planet swims into ...

Lately, Jay has been writing about Stefan Zweig’s memoirs, The World of Yesterday. Zweig was a writer of immense talent and versatility. He also knew a lot of music and a lot of musicians. Composers ...

After his last solo exhibition, at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in 1960, Pinchas Litvinovsky retreated to his Jerusalem studio and spent the final decades of his life in solitude, searching for a visual ...

Democrats won recent elections in New York City, New Jersey, and Virginia by calling attention to the “affordability crisis”—the claim that prices are too high and stretching the budgets of most ...