Recently added articles from New Criterion:
Art & ethics at Yale.(Notes & Comments)
May 01, 2008 ... <Text rich="yes"> One of the chief lessons of contemporary "avant-garde" art, especially that which pullulates in an academic setting, is that the unutterably tedious can cohabit seamlessly with the repellent. That may seem counterintuitive. After all, wasn't the main point of ...
Libel tourism.(Notes & Comments)
May 01, 2008 ... <Text rich="yes"> Last month, <Italic>The New Criterion</Italic> and the Washington-based Foundation for the Defense of Democracies hosted a conference in New York on "Free Speech in an Age of Jihad." Many who have commented on the event characterized it as a conference about "libel ...
Introduction: what was a liberal education?(Essay)
May 01, 2008 ... <Text rich="yes"> <Italic>The real difficulty in modern education lies in the fact that, despite all the fashionable talk about a new conservatism, even that minimum of conservation and the conserving attitude without which education is simply not possible is in our time ...
On the sadness of higher education.(Essay)
May 01, 2008 ... <Text rich="yes"> The academic world that I first encountered was one of both intellectual beauty and profound flaws. I was taught at Princeton, in the early 1960s--in history and literature, above all--before the congeries that we term "the Sixties" began. Most of my professors were ...
The world we have lost: a parable on the academy.(Essay)
May 01, 2008 ... <Text rich="yes"> More than a half century ago, Willmoore Kendall, an unrepentant cold warrior and one of this country's most brilliantly original political theorists, spoke at Harvard about disturbing trends in academic culture. To those preaching that a college campus should be an ...