The concertmaster came out and played an A on the piano, for the orchestra to tune. The first piece would be a half step ...

Bennett Tucker on Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin,” at the Haifa Auditorium.

It is remarkable that, despite its long record of failure, socialism is now more popular than ever among college students and in progressive precincts of the Democratic Party, at least judging by the ...

Still, it is worth noting that some choices have really pushed boundaries. In 1998, ADS members voted for the prefix “e-”; in ...

On Twelfth Night, collecting Old Masters, the British Empire, lost synagogues, Shostakovich & more from the world of culture.

A review of a new production of I puritani might begin with the production—the stage direction, the set design, etc. Or it ...

New Criterion executive editor and New York Post columnist James Panero joins Cam to discuss his experience in applying for and receiving a NYC carry permit, as well as the hurdles he continues to ...

Anatoly Grablevsky on the DEI regime, American humor & Tolkien.

My latest podcast is a Christmas podcast—music “of the season” and “for the season.” (I did not mean to sound like the Gettysburg Address.) That podcast is here. In my introduction, I say, ...

“Chronological order is not the only order,” says Jay in this episode, but “it’s not a bad” one. The episode starts in the sixteenth century—“Gaudete, Christus est natus.” It stays there for a while ...