The most obvious feature of Theodore Roosevelt’s life and thought is the one least celebrated today, his manliness. Somehow America in the twentieth century went from the explosion of assertive ...

This year marks the centennial of the birth of Andrzej Wajda, who has been called cinema’s great historian of Poland. Born on March 6, 1926, the director received almost every award imaginable, ...

Earlier this month, The Guardian issued a correction to an article about the Gold Medal of Philology, bestowed every five years by the International Society of Philology (ISP). Having initially ...

On Sparta, the American Revolution, stone, Carol Bove & more from the world of culture.

But it would be as “compleatly” off the mark to explain ham radio by its vestigial utility as it would have been for Izaak ...

The Eurasian steppe is famous for being the wellspring and thoroughfare of conquerors. It was from there that the Huns ...

On the most unfairly neglected framer. Who is the most unfairly neglected American Founding Father? You might think that none can be unfairly neglected, so many books about that distinguished coterie ...

Poetry Prize submissions are now closed. The Editors are pleased to receive submissions for the twenty-sixth New Criterion Poetry Prize, given annually to a book-length manuscript of poems that pay ...

The house on Wagner Street is narrow and unassuming. Located in the historic district of Annapolis, it faces the long and imposing wall of the United States Naval Academy. A chance passerby would ...

The result was a normal kid, with literate parents imparting an interest in books and writing. He was very much anchored and ...