A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” President Trump’s Truth Social post about Iran has ...
As James Q. Wilson wrote for City Journal, “Marriage was once a sacrament, then it became a contract, now it is an ...
The lesson for President Trump and for any Republican president is clear: be wary of opening up a vacancy at the Justice ...
Kaija Saariaho, a Finn, was one of the most prominent composers of our time. She died in 2023, at seventy. Last night, the ...
On April 9, the Friends and Young Friends gathered for a poetry party with David Lehman, winner of the 2025 New Criterion Poetry Prize. The New Criterion · Poetry Party with David Lehman ...
The Editors are pleased to announce the twenty-sixth New Criterion Poetry Prize for a book-length manuscript of poems that ...
After presenting a selection of Baroque masterpieces from the Borghese collection in 2024—which I reviewed in these pages—the Musée Jacquemart-André has now mounted a show with works from New York’s ...
On The Firearm Revolution: From Renaissance Italy to the European Empires, by Catherine Fletcher.
The early spread of Christianity owed much to a single line of Greek poetry. Spencer Klavan explains what Paul of Tarsus saw in the poet Aratus. Read “A phenomenal poet.” ...