One attraction of the new Aida was Saioa Hernández, a Spanish soprano rarely seen in American productions, in the title role.

In Life and in Legend,” by Heather Blurton ...

Thomas Philbrick on a performance of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.

Mystery Cults in Ancient Greece and Rome,” by Damien Stone.

On September 30, a federal district court judge in Boston upheld Harvard’s use of racial preferences in undergraduate admissions against the challenge that they discriminate against Asian-Americans.

Jay Nordlinger on a podcast with music from hither and yon.

Editors’ note: The following is an edited version of remarks delivered for The New Criterion’s seventh annual Circle Lecture on September 18, 2025. On November 18, 1956, Nikita Khrushchev, the first ...

On Plato and the Tyrant, by James Romm. Plato and the Tyrantis in fact the story of how Plato attempted to instruct not one but three Syracusan tyrants: Dionysius the Elder, who died in 367; his heir, ...

How to describe Vincent Barré? For about half a century he has been a presence in the cultural life of France, with excursions into the rest of Europe, the United States, and Canada. But how do we ...

Weimar Germany’s three greatest film directors were Fritz Lang, F. W. Murnau, and G. W. Pabst. Two, Lang and Pabst, were Austrian. All three moved to the United States, where Lang succeeded, as, prior ...