New Criterion

When Paul Cezanne died in October 1906, aged sixty-seven (he was born in January 1839), ten of his paintings were hastily assembled for exhibition that month at the Salon d'Automne, in homage. A year later, a large memorial retrospective was organized...

The major problem with democracy is the foolishness of our fellow citizens. This may sound like an arrogantly partisan remark, but it is not. Wherever we are on the political spectrum, we all agree on that. Each of us would describe foolishness differently,...

Here's the message flashed to the world by the Harvard Corporation, that tiny politically correct squad that sits upon a $26 billion endowment and controls Harvard University: no one with courage or in the habit of independent judgment need apply to...