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How much is too much? | The New Criterion
WEBJul 23, 2019 — How much is too much?
Unprecedented | The New Criterion
WEBMichael Anton is a Lecturer in Politics and a Research Fellow at Hillsdale College’s Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies in Washington, D.C. He served on the National Security Council Staff in the administration of President Donald J. Trump. This article originally appeared in The New Criterion, Volume 40 Number 4, on page 4 ...
The triumph of Thomas Sowell | The New Criterion
WEBSoon, Sowell was “rethinking the whole notion of government as a potentially benevolent force in the economy and society.”. He also couldn’t help noticing that his fellow bureaucrats did not care if the minimum wage helped workers. Their job was to enforce the laws. It was not to see if the laws did any good.
Baudelaire’s Modernism | The New Criterion
WEBCharles Baudelaire was the first modern poet.[1] In both style and content, his provocative, alluring, and shockingly original work shaped and enlarged the imagination of later poets. His influence was not limited to France but spread across Europe and the Americas. His work guided the symbolist movement, which became the dominant school of ...
Richard Gilder, 1932–2020 | The New Criterion
WEBA le xis de Tocqueville would recognize the late philanthropist Richard Gilder—a valued friend and supporter of this magazine, who died in May at eighty-seven—as exactly the kind of American he so admired when he explored this then-new country in 1831. U.S. citizens, Tocqueville marveled in Democracy in America, don’t wait for government ...
One hundred years of “We” | The New Criterion
WEBY ev geny Zamyatin wrote We in 1920, during the Russian Civil War. Composed at the dawn of the Soviet era—a not-so-distant mirror of our own troubled and dangerous times— We was first published in the ussr in 1988, at its dusk. The manuscript, a stunning prophecy of totalitarianism and a classic of dystopian literature, was one of several works that …
Fake news on film | The New Criterion
WEBJun 3, 2020 — The new film Mr. Jones makes a statement that critics of the media will enthusiastically support.The movie, which opened in Europe in 2019 and will be available to stream stateside on June 19, focuses on the work of Gareth Jones, a Welsh journalist who in the early 1930s revealed the lies told by Stalin and the Soviet propaganda machine …
John Simon, 1925–2019 | The New Criterion
WEBAt The New Criterion, we were proud to be one of the last remaining venues to feature John regularly and at length.At the end of his life, he otherwise made do with a blog called Uncensored John Simon—underwritten by his surprise friend Yoko Ono—and appearances on local Westchester television.John wrote seventy-six pieces for The New Criterion …