Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. The Dream Factoryis the story of the men (it was exclusively men) who commissioned, designed, built, and worked ...

It was improbable, to say the least, that the David Gruen born as a Jew in 1886 in the back-of-beyond Polish-Russian township of Plonsk should have become David Ben-Gurion, a world-historical figure.

Be My Guest” at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.

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In an age of killer submarines and cyber warfare, one might reasonably ask what old warriors from long-gone conflicts have to teach us about war today. Qui ...

Edgar Vincent, the first (and, as it happens, the last) Viscount D’Abernon, once remarked that “An Englishman’s mind works best when it is almost too late.” He died in the dark days of 1941 and so did ...

Jimmy Kimmel is back, not only unrepentant but glorying in his new role as the people’s champion of “free speech” against the “un-American” tyrant in the White House. The closest he got to an apology ...

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Longtime readers will know that The New Criterion has had what might politely be described as a fraught relationship with the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities. Samuel Lipman, our ...

Sally Quinn won’t return my emails. Perhaps Quinn, the doyenne of Washington, D.C., and the widow of the Washington Post legend Ben Bradlee, is overwrought. As she recently lamented in The New York ...

Editors’ note: The following is an edited version of remarks delivered at The New Criterion’s gala on April 24, 2025, honoring Heather Mac Donald with the twelfth Edmund Burke Award for Service to ...