The Critical Temper: Interventions from The New Criterion at 40
On the occasion of its fortieth anniversary, The New Criterion has brought together a plump chrestomathy of essays demonstrating its range and acuity as America’s foremost review of culture and the arts.  With contributions by Bruce Bawer, Anthony Daniels, Denis Donoghue, Joseph Epstein, John Steele Gordon, Victor Davis Hanson, Charles Hill, Donald Kagan, Roger Kimball, Heather Mac Donald, Myron Magnet, Andrew C. McCarthy, David Pryce-Jones, Andrew Roberts, Alexander McCall Smith, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Keith Windschuttle, and many others, this collection of fifty essays brings you the best of the best: incisive cultural criticism, scintillating historical analysis, and robust commentary about the way we live now.  Edited by Roger Kimball, this spiritual Baedeker is a timely repository of timeless writing about the figures, controversies, and challenges that define our life in the 2020s.

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The Critical Temper: Interventions from The New Criterion at 40
On the occasion of its fortieth anniversary, The New Criterion has brought together a plump chrestomathy of essays demonstrating its range and acuity as America’s foremost review of culture and the arts.  With contributions by Bruce Bawer, Anthony Daniels, Denis Donoghue, Joseph Epstein, John Steele Gordon, Victor Davis Hanson, Charles Hill, Donald Kagan, Roger Kimball, Heather Mac Donald, Myron Magnet, Andrew C. McCarthy, David Pryce-Jones, Andrew Roberts, Alexander McCall Smith, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Keith Windschuttle, and many others, this collection of fifty essays brings you the best of the best: incisive cultural criticism, scintillating historical analysis, and robust commentary about the way we live now.  Edited by Roger Kimball, this spiritual Baedeker is a timely repository of timeless writing about the figures, controversies, and challenges that define our life in the 2020s.

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The Critical Temper: Interventions from The New Criterion at 40

The Critical Temper: Interventions from The New Criterion at 40

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On the occasion of its fortieth anniversary, The New Criterion has brought together a plump chrestomathy of essays demonstrating its range and acuity as America’s foremost review of culture and the arts.  With contributions by Bruce Bawer, Anthony Daniels, Denis Donoghue, Joseph Epstein, John Steele Gordon, Victor Davis Hanson, Charles Hill, Donald Kagan, Roger Kimball, Heather Mac Donald, Myron Magnet, Andrew C. McCarthy, David Pryce-Jones, Andrew Roberts, Alexander McCall Smith, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Keith Windschuttle, and many others, this collection of fifty essays brings you the best of the best: incisive cultural criticism, scintillating historical analysis, and robust commentary about the way we live now.  Edited by Roger Kimball, this spiritual Baedeker is a timely repository of timeless writing about the figures, controversies, and challenges that define our life in the 2020s.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781641772174
Publisher: Encounter Books
Publication date: 09/21/2021
Pages: 576
Product dimensions: 6.40(w) x 9.50(h) x 1.70(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Roger Kimball is Editor and Publisher of The New Criterion and President and Publisher of Encounter Books. He writes regular columns at American Greatness, The Spectator USA, and The Epoch Times. His latest books are Who Rules?: Sovereignty, Nationalism, and the Fate of Freedom in the Twenty-First Century and The Fortunes of Permanence: Culture and Anarchy in an Age of Amnesia.

Table of Contents

Foreword ix

Introduction: Hilton Kramer & the critical temper Roger Kimball 1

I The Fate of Freedom

Leninthink Gary Saul Morson 15

The scab & the wound beneath Victor Davis Hanson 30

The Sixties at 40 Peter Collier 45

Prophecies of democratic leveling Jacob Howland 54

Liberalism vs. humanism James Piereson 66

A sketch of democracy Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 77

Bad ideas never die David Pryce-Jones 84

Dependence Day Mark Steyn 90

Morals & the servile mind Kenneth Minogue 100

The wisdom of "The Federalist" Harvey Mansfield 109

The Founders' priceless legacy Myron Magnet 117

Patriotism, allegiance & the nation-state Andrew Roberts 130

The globalist legal agenda Andrew C. McCarthy 139

II Reputations Reconsidered

The case of Stephen Greenblatt Bruce Bawer 149

Ayn Rand: engineer of souls Anthony Daniels 163

The postmodern calculus James Franklin 173

Guilt trip: Versailles, avant-garde & kitsch Roger Kimball 183

The problem with "Mockingbird" Kyle Smith 197

The denunciation machine J. Christian Adams 204

Beauty locked out Alexander McCall Smith 212

Confucian confusions Eric Ormsby 219

Polemical Interlude: Notes & Comments

On some uses of "but" 229

Decline & fall: classics edition 234

1619 & all that 243

III Appreciations

The James cult Joseph Epstein 251

Froude for thought Paul Dean 260

Alexandria, Durrell & the "Quartet" John Derbyshire 269

A Burke for our time Charles Hill 278

"WE MUST BE FUNNY!!!!!!" Robert Messenger 286

"Bovary" & le mot juste Brooke Allen 295

No flash in the pan John Steele Gordon 303

Gertrude Himmelfarb & the Enlightenment Keith Windschuttle 312

A schoolboy's guide to war Andrew Stuttaford 319

Mining the ash heap Alexandra Mullen 327

The student of political behavior Donald Kagan 338

The Vatican's Latinist John Byron Kuhner 351

Homer in the tropics Alexander Suebsaeng 361

IV Discriminations

Piero della Francesca: the world knew him not Marco Grassi 371

Raphael, interrupted James Hankins 380

Unmaking the Met James Panero 385

Lois Dodd in Portland Karen Wilkin 399

A better London Benjamin Riley 407

Albert Pinkham Ryder: isolato of the brush Andrew L. Shea 412

Le Sacre turns 100 Laura Jacobs 421

Teaching modern poetry Denis Donoghue 428

Puttin' on the style Dominic Green 437

T S. Eliot's animus Adam Kirsch 447

The unbearable Tightness of criticism William Logan 457

Sound & sensibility David Yezzi 471

Building the Gilded Age Michael J. Lewis 481

Mozart's Linnaeus James F. Penrose 488

Let's tickle the ivories David Dubal 500

Operatic precocity Heather Mac Donald 509

Bernstein at 100: a personal look Jay Nordlinger 519

Contributors 531

Index 535

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