Paul du Quenoy on a new production of “Die Frau ohne Schatten,” by Richard Strauss, at the Aix-en-Provence Festival.

Now, neither classics nor philology is what it used to be. And the combination—classical philology—is in evident trouble. The ...

On a new production of Wagner’s Die Walküre, at the Bavarian State Opera.

Walking to Carnegie Hall, I called a friend—a musician friend—and said, “I’m going to say something we could have said in the 1980s or ’90s: I’m going to hear Renée and Tom. How ’bout that?” I was ...

I met the Brazilian philosopher Olavo de Carvalho more than twenty years ago when he came to the United States in what seemed like his transition into intellectual and political networks north of the ...

It is remarkable that, despite its long record of failure, socialism is now more popular than ever among college students and in progressive precincts of the Democratic Party, at least judging by the ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. On first looking into “The colorblind bard,” I felt like some watcher of the skies when an old planet swims into ...

It is a great irony that at a time when Facebook and Twitter are closing accounts of conservatives for allegedly promoting “hate,” and conservative speakers are banned from college campuses for (as it ...

On performances of Verdi’s Macbeth at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich and at the Hungarian State Opera in Budapest. The stages in both productions shared a sense of obstacle and confinement. For ...

Last month, the University of Oxford announced in the weekly Gazette a series of proposed “changes to the Conduct of Ceremonies in Congregation, and certain other Ceremonies.” Among these changes are ...

On the valorization of New York Times Co. v. Sullivan (1964). Insight into the case is provided by Carson Holloway, a professor of political science at the University of Nebraska, in his new book No ...

Democrats won recent elections in New York City, New Jersey, and Virginia by calling attention to the “affordability crisis”—the claim that prices are too high and stretching the budgets of most ...