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“We in Britain,” Roger Scruton says, “are entering a dangerous social condition in which the expression of opinions that conflict—or merely seem to conflict—with a narrow set of orthodoxies is instantly punished by a band of self-appointed vigilantes.”
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“It serves as a reminder of why the Democratic Party lost long ago its former base in the white working class, which should be a source of shame for party members but often is not.”
Read “Popular song as populist revolt,” by Victor Davis Hanson.
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In our view, Professor Boghossian and his friends performed a public service by engaging in these acts of intellectual fumigation.
@peterboghossian
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The absolutely brilliant thing about Titania McGrath, as the world just discovered last month, is that she is really the satirical invention of Andrew Doyle, a former Oxford postgraduate student and clearly a very clever man.
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Our critic’s pick: “The War on the West,” by Douglas Murray (Broadside Books).
@HarperCollins
@DouglasKMurray
@JamesPanero
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Igor Levit is one of the best pianists of our time, or any, really. He is a person of extraordinary talent, extraordinary intellect, and extraordinary intensity.
@jaynordlinger
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The left-wing campus culture that then permeates the tech companies masks the greatest concentration of wealth in the history of civilization.
@VDHanson
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“What we saw in Britain’s referendum was a recovery of power from remote elites.”
—
@DanielJHannan
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Saint Frida has landed in Brooklyn.
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Our critic’s pick:
@rogerkimball
on a new book
@JamesOKeefeIII
, “American Pravda: My Fight For Truth in the Era of Fake News.”
@StMartinsPress
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Welcoming
@DouglasKMurray
as one of our Visiting Critics this upcoming publishing season. He will deliver our next Circle Lecture on September 26 in New York on “The profundity of evil,” drawing from his on-the-ground reporting from Israel in the aftermath of the attacks of
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Those who do not know his work often see Scruton as a pessimist, a perception he did not always discourage. But even at his most pessimistic he found things to celebrate and shoots of new life and learning to encourage.
@DouglasKMurray
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She is so woke she makes Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez look like Sleeping Beauty.
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The works now at
@metmuseum
show Joseph Mallord William Turner's bold challenging of his art's material properties.
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Up to 1940, Churchill had been a great but somewhat quixotic romantic. Then he suddenly became the only man who could prevent Hitler, Stalin, and the Japanese from taking over the entire Eurasian landmass.
@aroberts_andrew
@ConradMBlack
@VikingBooks
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One of the characteristics for which the English gentleman is famed is his self-deprecation. He is trained in understatement in all things; he has litotes coursing through his veins.
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The Western world’s extreme tolerance could very well be its civilization’s demise.
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The real threat, the one Philip Hamburger so discerningly captures by contextualizing an abstruse revenue law, is that we may have realized Tocqueville’s dystopian forecast: too infantilized by liberalism to see the stakes.
@AndrewCMcCarthy
@UChicagoPress
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On the “astonishing painterly abandon” of Turner's Whaling Pictures, now in its final week
@metmuseum
.
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“Late Wagner does unmistakably sink into an “eternal song” where all seems interconnected. Karlsson’s score, in its own lugubrious way, achieves a certain endlessness as well.”
Read “Opera at the end of the world,” by Veronica Maldonado.
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Our critic’s pick: “Justinian: Emperor, Soldier, Saint,” by Peter Sarris (Basic Books).
@BasicBooks
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Our critic’s pick: Jan Lisiecki, at Carnegie Hall, New York (March 13).
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Compared to what? That should be the question that every fear-mongering news story on the coronavirus has to start with.
@HMDatMI
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In truth, we free-marketeers believe not in trickle-down, but in trickle-up: capitalism, uniquely, rewards people who offer goods or services to the masses.
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Rather, Scruton saw in ideological mendacity, in the regime of the Lie, a self-conscious effort to deface the very personhood of human beings.
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The worship of power by intellectuals is their besetting sin and has been for decades. If not longer.
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Descartes left a complex—yet lasting—legacy on the world that goes beyond mathematics.
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Most critics and scholars have hardly any idea what’s in the Bible, let alone how it influenced American literature.
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This was the “double shock” of the Trump election, for not only did Trump pull off the electoral upset against the odds, but he also turned the liberal historical narrative on its head...
@ConradMBlack
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Our critic’s pick: “The Less You Know, the Better You Sleep” by
@DavidSatter
, from
@yalepress
.
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Dead White Males, as
@charlesmurray
likes to call them, do most of the heavy lifting in his specified fields of intellectual accomplishment.
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Politically incorrect phrases are unearthed, torn from their original context, and passed like antique shards in front of the tremulous outrage meter of the Left.
@Roger_Scruton
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.
@DanielJHannan
: The European Parliament's gargantuan edifices are the perfect symbols of the larger Euro-racket.
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Solzhenitsyn is the great Marx-killer, an antidote to such destructive ignorance. Let us not lose his work to time.
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Tocqueville feared that the democratic revolution in America might eventually produce a passive population that has traded its liberty and independence in exchange for comfort and security.
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Our critic’s pick: “County Highway,” edited by David Samuels & Walter Kirn, published by Donald Rosenfeld.
@PrufrocksBurner
@countyhwy
@walterkirn
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Levit is an extraordinarily intense musician. He is this way in normal, sunny times. He is doubly so now.
@jaynordlinger
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Would even the most cynical among us suppose that the tax code, in just one of its most promiscuous provisions, reflects the uniquely American history of left-wing hostility to free speech? Philip Hamburger would.
@AndrewCMcCarthy
@UChicagoPress
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“At Princeton, it is now possible to graduate with a degree in classics and not to have studied Greek or Latin at all. Quod erat demonstrandum!”
Read “The burden of the humanities,” by Wilfred M. McClay.
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Those who doubt the operation of a beneficent, or at least an amusing, providence should consider the case of the British writer Titania McGrath.
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The Editors are pleased to announce that
@PeterVertacnik
is the winner of the twenty-third New Criterion Poetry Prize.
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“America may be still a constitutional republic in name, but recently it has operated more as an unchecked Athenian-style democracy.”
Read “Our Athenian American democracy,” by Victor Davis Hanson.
@VDHanson
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The rise of Donald Trump from Manhattan real estate mogul to national television celebrity to President of the United States was as unprecedented as it was disorienting.
@ConradMBlack
@Regnery
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The petition to remove Balthus’s painting is not only comically opportunistic; it is also offensively patronizing. It presumes that the viewer is too stupid to see the provocation of “Thérèse Dreaming” and react to it accordingly.
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“He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant…” George III or the EU?
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Robert Spencer is living proof that there is no such thing as Islamophobia.
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The Prado emerged from a long slumber starting in the 1980s, as did Spain. Today it is a thriving, modern museum, surely among the world’s liveliest spots to see Old Masters.
@museodelprado
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No man of the Renaissance, not even Leonardo or Michelangelo, was as much of a Renaissance man as Goethe.
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Kirk wrote, "No matter how admirable our Constitution may look on paper, it will be ineffectual unless the unwritten Constitution, that web of forms and convention, affirms an underlying moral order of obligation and personal responsibility," quotes Gerald Russello of
@ubookman
.
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The West itself would not exist as we know it without Augustus’s extraordinary achievement.
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Our critic’s pick: “Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition,” by Roger Scruton.
@rogerkimball
@Roger_Scruton
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#MyFirstLoeb
was spawned spontaneously from a discussion on this article from our September 2011 issue.
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The rise of Donald Trump from Manhattan real estate mogul to national television celebrity to President of the United States was as unprecedented as it was disorienting.
@conradmblack
@regnery
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The rise of Donald Trump from Manhattan real estate mogul to national television celebrity to President of the United States was as unprecedented as it was disorienting.
@ConradMBlack
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#WednesdayWisdom
from Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during
#DDay
and 34th President of the United States.
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Our critic's pick: The life and legacy of Sir Roger Scruton.
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Camille Paglia brand of libertarian feminism stands in clear contrast to the incessant voices of mainstream feminism that demand women be given special privileges without personal responsibility.
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On the works of Roger Scruton, a preeminent “man of letters.”
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Our critic’s pick: “The Origins of Woke: Civil Rights Law, Corporate America, and the Triumph of Identity Politics,” by Richard Hanania (Broadside Books).
@HarperCollins
@richardhanania
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Our critic's pick: "The Barbarians Arrive Today: Poems & Prose," by C. P. Cavafy, translated by Evan Jones (Carcanet Classics).
@CCavafy
@EvanPJones
@Carcanet
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Our critic's pick: Art of the Mandolin, by Avi Avital (Deutsche Grammophon).
@DGclassics
@aviavital
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The English Independents ditched the Presbyterians, the French Jacobins guillotined the Girondins, the Russian Bolsheviks sent the Mensheviks to the gulag. To the immediate right of the extreme Left is often the most dangerous place to be.
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Unlike T. S. Eliot, say, who represented high culture in the Anglophone world for three-plus decades, Philip Larkin kept to himself and avoided the plunder and pratfalls of literary celebrity.
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Scruton’s most incisive work occurs “at the flaming edge of things—that place where the empirical gives out and the transcendental glimmers.”
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“Our young people are not only starved for nature. They are starved for beauty,” Esolen writes, drawing a connection between our shattered social consensus and our wayward styles of music and architecture.
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Political parties have failed in their purpose for existence: to facilitate choice and articulate worldviews.
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Our critic’s pick: “Confessions of a Heretic, Revised Edition,” by Roger Scruton, Introduced by Douglas Murray (Notting Hill Editions).
@NottingHillEds
@JamesPanero
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Lord Clark wanted to remind his audience what civilization was really all about.
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We’re celebrating
#NationalBowTieDay
@newcriterion
. Retweet for a chance to win a subscription and our custom Japanese silk bow tie by Seigo created in The New Criterion’s colors.
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Students now exist in an amniotic fluid of shared prejudice that admits no challenging ideas from the world outside.
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Our critic’s pick:
@rogerkimball
on the latest book by
@Roger_Scruton
, “Where We Are: The State of Britain Now.”
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In 1948, “freedom” meant a guarantee against coercion. Since then, however, “freedom” has come to mean “entitlement.”
http://t.co/nRMl3qHDaQ
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“No country was ever saved by good men,” Horace Walpole once observed, “because good men will not go to the length that may be necessary.”
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However Milton wrote, with whatever primal energy he poured into Paradise Lost, he enveloped my mind in a way no other author ever has.
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The corruption of Western history through identity politics, guilt, and a misguided commitment to multiculturalism.
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Free speech, the vehicle of reason, is increasingly overwhelmed by narrative, the most potent weapon in the social justice warrior’s arsenal. Today, anti-knowledge is power.
@AndrewCMcCarthy
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Our musical culture depends on a radical divide between performer and listener. For us the act of listening takes place in silence, often in the hushed and reverential atmosphere of a concert hall.
@Roger_Scruton
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A choir treated Mozart to a motet. Shortly into it, he called out, with wondering joy, “What is this?” It was Bach, of course. After the motet was over, Mozart said, “Now, there is something one can learn from!”
@jaynordlinger
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It is the easiest thing in the world to convince someone that Penn Station should be rebuilt. All it takes is a look at a photograph of the original station and then a look at Penn Station today.
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Our critic’s pick: “Plato Goes to China: The Greek Classics and Chinese Nationalism,” by Shadi Bartsch (Princeton University Press).
@ShadiBartsch
@PrincetonUPress
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The
#MeToo
movement’s insistence on the fundamental infallibility of the victims of sexual harassment, combined with truculent claims to the higher moral ground, seem reminiscent of Soviet rhetorical extremes of rectitude and wickedness. 🔒
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An entire cottage industry has sprung up to delegitimize the past and taint the present through a process of anachronistic virtue-mongering.
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Our critic’s pick: “Wintermezzo: Víkingur Ólafsson plays Grieg” (streaming through February 16).
@VikingurMusic
@Bergenfilharmon
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Our critic’s pick: How to Grieve: An Ancient Guide to the Lost Art of Consolation, after M. Tullius Cicero, translated by Michael Fontaine (Princeton University Press).
@PrincetonUPress
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“...Islam spread by military conquest because the predominant conception of Allah was defined by will, not reason.”🔒
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Why Kenneth Clark's 1969 television show still matters today.
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Ancient words from real languages mix with Tolkien’s new words from his invented languages to marry the actual with the fantastical, the old with the new.
@NicXTempore
@MorganLibrary
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Our critic’s pick: A lecture at the
@frickcollection
“Protecting Europe’s Cultural Treasures: The Frick Art Reference Library, The Monuments Men, and Provenance Research Today.”
@frickcollection
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The Third Policeman’s genius is to use comedy not as relief from the uncanny but to create it.
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Ideally, college admissions would be purely meritocratic and objective, selecting students on the basis of academic qualifications alone.
@HMDatMI
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The notion that civilization reached its peak in Periclean Athens and then simply declined is indeed one of the most damaging to persist today.
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Our critic’s pick: “The Radical Print: Art and Politics in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain,” by Esther Chadwick (Yale University Press, July 30).
@yalepress
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Sharia supremacism divides the world into areas that submit to Islamic law (Dar al-Islam) and areas of war (Dar al-Harb), where the enemies of Islam—including secular liberals—live and must be opposed until they have submitted. 🔒
@AndrewCMcCarthy
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