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The Critic’s Notebook newcriterion.com/dispatch/the-c… Exciting to see a great writer and editor comment on Teaching the Virtues in America’s premier cultural review… Russell Kirk Center James Panero

"It did not exactly feel like a coincidence." Read about the show trial of Lauren Noble Buckley Institute

I hope the Huntington Library & the New-York Historical Society got a bulk discount on these redesigns

The June issue has arrived. Find inside: Heather Mac Donald’s speech at the 2025 Edmund Burke Gala, the reopened Yale Center for British Art, a lengthy Bill Buckley biography, a new verse chronicle & more. newcriterion.com/current-issue/

“The hermeneutics of suspicion applies only to the West, of course.” Read “The clash within civilizations,” by Heather Mac Donald. newcriterion.com/article/the-cl…

“This is Louis I. Kahn’s Cunard Queen of a museum rebranded as a Carnival fun-ship cruise.” Read “Fool Britannia,” by James Panero. James Panero newcriterion.com/article/fool-b…

A guide at the Mark Twain museum in Hartford once told a friend of mine during a tour: "Did you know Mark Twain dropped out of school in his teens to work in print shops and on a river boat? Just think how much greater a writer he would have been if he'd finished high school!"

Our critic’s picks: “Complicité,” by Simone Dinnerstein (Supertrain Records). SUPERTRAIN Records James Panero newcriterion.com/dispatch/the-c…

At Harvard Divinity School, the cult is you.

Your tax dollars at work

Fact check: false. nytimes.com/2025/05/29/art… Read newcriterion.com/article/curtai…

The new symbol of the French Resistance.

Our critic’s pick: “Gottlieb/Rothko: The Realist Years” at 125 Newbury, New York (through July 25). James Panero Pace Gallery newcriterion.com/dispatch/the-c…

I've created The Buckley Playlist with some of WFB's favorite artists, compositions, composers and much more. These include pieces I played for Bill during my recitals, heard performed at his house, and listened to with him his home or at concerts. 1/ open.spotify.com/playlist/57b0w…

My thoughts on WFB, occasioned by Barton Swaim's review of books by Sam Tanenhaus and Lawrence Perelman, in today's The Wall Street Journal wsj.com/opinion/a-soul…

My view of the president's actions at the National Portrait Gallery in today's The New York Times nytimes.com/2025/06/03/art…

New York sunset.

At a luncheon today celebrating cowboy pool, I heard an impressive reading from memory (!) of Damon Runyon's "Small Town Sport." Great WWI poem gutenberg.org/files/56956/56…

Roger Kimball If I could read only one journal it would be The New Criterion, which publishes articles by such brilliant thinkers as @Rogerkimball, Victor Davis Hanson , James Panero, Heather Mac Donald, Larry P. Arnn, inter alia. Reading TNC uplifts the spirit, inspires the mind & gladdens the heart .

Big if true hup.harvard.edu/series/loeb-cl…