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How much is too much? | The New Criterion
WEBJul 23, 2019 · Back in 1992, the American Alliance of Museums found that 36 percent of all museums in the United States charged an admission fee. By 2008, the AAM reported that only a third of all museums were free to the public, with the average ticket being $10 for adults. On a national basis, admissions make up between 2 and 4 …
The promise of populism | The New Criterion
WEBEditors’ note: The following essay forms part of “The new conservative dilemma: a symposium,” a special section on the challenges facing conservatism today.Roger Kimball’s introduction can be read here.. Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack ...
Dispatch | The New Criterion
WEBSep 20, 2024 · by. the Editors. On students, Dana Gioia, Amy Lincoln, the New York Philharmonic & more from the world of culture. September 6, 2024.
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“The red star returns,” by Gary Saul Morson - The New Criterion
WEBby. Gary Saul Morson. On the specter of communism. J us t when everyone at the monastery has heaved a sigh of relief that the repulsive villain of The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Pavlovich, has at last gone home after behaving scandalously, he reappears. “They thought I had gone, and here I am again!” he chortles maliciously, devising fresh ...
The Old South shall rise again | The New Criterion
WEBThe half-black actress Halle Berry once appealed to a court to embrace the neo-Confederate one-drop rule in a child-custody fight with her white former boyfriend. She felt that her one-quarter black daughter should be considered black—and thus raised by the black Berry and not her boyfriend.
The soul of Strauss | The New Criterion
WEBIn a coruscating passage from an essay titled “Perspectives on the Good Society,” Strauss takes aim at the impotent rage that is the inevitable consequence of this flight from all authority. The self, Strauss explains, “is obviously a descendant of the soul”—meaning “it is not the soul.”. The soul “is a part of an order which ...
The world of light | The New Criterion
WEBWhatever else we did or could have done, or tried to think of when the time had come, would always bring us to this place of stone, cold and forgetfulness. There was the same pain in our hearts as we would often have, enough to mourn by, and in mourning thus, we surely came to know the end of love, its purpose and its only terminus. And so we all were as we were before, wanting to make of it ...
Protecting America’s promise | The New Criterion
WEBEditors’ note: The following is an edited version of remarks delivered at The New Criterion ’s gala on May 2, 2024, honoring Ronald S. Lauder with the eleventh Edmund Burke Award for Service to Culture and Society.. R ig ht now, we are living through one of the darkest hours in our nation’s history. You see it with your own eyes. We have enemies who want to change and weaken America ...