Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Appearances do not always deceive. We are once again laboring in those fecund if weed-strewn fields where ...

Cheryl Hines, the American actress, and wife of Robert F Kennedy Jr., recently gave a speech at Independence Hall on October 9, 2023, to introduce her husband at a campaign rally in Philadelphia.

An overview of “Free Speech under Threat: How Anglosphere Values Are Being Undermined by Fear, Political Correctness, and Misplaced Concerns about Privacy,” a ...

Robert Parish is a man of exquisite nobility, gentility and grace. And he is exactly what the Basketball Hall of Fame is all about, a hallowed institution to properly honor the legends who never had ...

Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent. – Dionysius of Halicarnassus Students of persuasive speech learn a skill, a craft, and an art. Contents come and go; speaking effectively is an ...

Not long ago, the ubiquitous, open internet promised unfettered, borderless communication and, along with it, the democratizing, empowering values traditionally associated with free speech. But while ...