Seldom can any author have taken Horace’s dictum that the artist should delight and instruct as seriously as did Bernard Shaw. The notion of art for art’s sake, the guiding principle for so many ...

The other program, the subject of this review, appealed to more advanced balletomanes—works by Gianna Reisen, Ulysses Dove, ...

(1974), the Supreme Court further broadened the group who could be maligned by the media to include “limited-purpose public ...

Jay Nordlinger on a performance of “Carmina Burana” at the Teatro Massimo.

Editors’ note: The following is an edited version of remarks delivered at The New Criterion’s gala on April 22, 2026, honoring Harvey Mansfield with the thirteenth Edmund Burke Award for Service to ...

Publishing in the Western world is an enterprise whose success depends on freedom of expression enjoyed in Western countries. Reputable publishers know this, and do not lightly accept restraints on ...

David Platzer on the life of Lady Diana Cooper.

At least, that is, until now, with the advent of the Pascal Institute, in the Netherlands, with which St. John’s has formed a ...

T he elder apostles of George Balanchine often gripe that his ballets, especially when staged by smaller companies, fall ...