Oh, the wind, the wind is blowing / Through the graves the wind is blowing / Freedom soon will come…, Leonard Cohen’s hushed baritone washes over somber strings. The singer/songwriter’s haunting ...
The media is filled with stories blaring details of political scandal, the immorality of politicians and seditious behavior of candidates running for president. Vicious allegations of corruption and ...
Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. As a consequence, attempting to explain to younger readers in the 1990s what it meant in 1937 to launch a ...
The Supreme Court has become a political clubhouse, consumed with optics, log-rolling and media leaks. Its decisions in certain matters are sourced not in the text, structure or history of the ...
America, we are often told, is less a country than an idea. That idea can be nebulous in its formulation, but it generally centers on opportunity and around freedom. There has long been an advantage ...
It seems that now, it could be equally popular among right-wing politicians and their followers to communicate the idea that “everything is political.” Nowhere is this more evident than in the case of ...