It is critical to remember that the gentleman’s bequest was not simply an investment or display of wealth. It represented a ...

Warren Frye on “The Last Peasant War,” by Jakub S. Beneš.

De Kooning was born in Rotterdam in 1904. As a youth he studied for eight years at a conservative academy of art, where the curriculum included De Stijl due to the Dutch art movement’s practical ...

American and European elites set themselves up as bulwarks against the allegedly toxic legacy of Western civilization and ...

So, yes: Buckley was the founding father of modern conservatism, the man who legitimized conservatism as an intellectual ...

Suzanna Murawski on “Ravelstein,” Marsden Hartley & a new canvas adhesive.

On a recital by Evgeny Kissin.

For example, the latest Michelin Guide considers the best two restaurants in Washington, D.C., to be minibar and Jônt, ...

When Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation appeared in 1973, its impact, the author recalled, was immediate: “Like matter enveloped by antimatter, it ...

The New Criterion. A distinguished concert pianist, Lipman wrote music criticism for Commentary and served on the National ...

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s three-volume opus, The Gulag Archipelago, which some have called the most important masterpiece of the twentieth century, is subtitled: “An Experiment in Literary ...