Paul du Quenoy on a new production of “Die Frau ohne Schatten,” by Richard Strauss, at the Aix-en-Provence Festival.

Now, neither classics nor philology is what it used to be. And the combination—classical philology—is in evident trouble. The ...

On a new production of Wagner’s Die Walküre, at the Bavarian State Opera.

On Israeli military strategy, stonemasonry, the Declaration of Independence, a 9/11 memorial concert & more from the world of culture.

Walking to Carnegie Hall, I called a friend—a musician friend—and said, “I’m going to say something we could have said in the 1980s or ’90s: I’m going to hear Renée and Tom. How ’bout that?” I was ...

I met the Brazilian philosopher Olavo de Carvalho more than twenty years ago when he came to the United States in what seemed like his transition into intellectual and political networks north of the ...

It is a great irony that at a time when Facebook and Twitter are closing accounts of conservatives for allegedly promoting “hate,” and conservative speakers are banned from college campuses for (as it ...

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 ...

Ten years ago, the Merriam-Webster Dictionary declared “surreal” its word of the year. There were many reasons for its popularity that year. In the century since the 1924 publication of André Breton’s ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. On first looking into “The colorblind bard,” I felt like some watcher of the skies when an old planet swims into ...