From The New Criterion’s thirty-six-year history ...

A curated selection of articles from The New Criterion’s thirty-six-year history.

The slyer virus: the West’s anti-westernism by Mark Steyn The sixth in a series titled “The survival of culture.”

In the first week of September 2001, the kindly earth, lapt in universal law, was gathered in South Africa, yakking incessantly, shrieking hysterically, but slumbering nonetheless. In a novel or a movie, it would have seem... more

The fortunes of permanence by Roger Kimball The concluding essay of The New Criterion’s series on The Survival of Culture, revised and expanded for publication in The Survival of Culture: Permanent Values in a Virtual Age.

I remember the first time I noticed the legend “cultural instructions” on the brochure that accompanied some seedlings. “How quaint,” I thought, as I pursued the advisory: this much water and that much sun, certain tips... more

The felicific calculus of modern medicine by Anthony Daniels The third in a series titled “The survival of culture.”

In May of this year, one of Britain’s most wanted criminals, a man called Ronald Biggs, returned to Britain after thirty years of exile in Brazil. Now aged seventy-one, he was arrested on arrival and taken straight to... more