To return to the question posed at the beginning: is socialism a hate crime? The record speaks for itself: socialism is a ...

Still, it is worth noting that some choices have really pushed boundaries. In 1998, ADS members voted for the prefix “e-”; in ...

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A review of a new production of I puritani might begin with the production—the stage direction, the set design, etc. Or it ...

New Criterion executive editor and New York Post columnist James Panero joins Cam to discuss his experience in applying for and receiving a NYC carry permit, as well as the hurdles he continues to ...

On the opening-night gala at Carnegie Hall.

Anatoly Grablevsky on “Monet and Venice,” at the Brooklyn Museum of Art.

When Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation appeared in 1973, its impact, the author recalled, was immediate: “Like matter enveloped by antimatter, it ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Stalin interrogated Sholokhov about ideologically problematic passages but agreed to the book’s publication on ...

Every culture has a literature that is to some extent subterranean. Much of it deserves to stay there. But certain pieces occasionally bubble to the surface. Invariably this happens because the work ...