Anthony Daniels

1 month ago | quadrant.org.au | Anthony Daniels |Michael Cross |Graham L. Bradley |Michael Connor

Labour’s nip-and-tuck on the remaining peers ignores Blackstonian theory in the same way as did Oliver Cromwell’s Commons Mar 18 2025 12 mins The sad truth is that old fashioned graft holds the moral advantage on, say, your typical conference of rent-seeking climateers Mar 18 2025 7 mins Navalny's return to Russia and near-certain death was a fate he embraced in the fervent belief change was possible and would ultimately triumph Mar 17 2025 4 mins A delusion is defined as a fixed false belief...

1 month ago | quadrant.org.au | Mark Steyn |John O’Sullivan |Anthony Daniels |Oliver Hartwich

ifty years ago Margaret Thatcher, the challenger, defeated former Prime […]Feb 26 20259 minsIt was assumed grateful migrants would become themselves Swedes. Oh, the treachery of good intentionsFeb 26 20257 minsew Zealand is the best country on Planet Earth,” Christopher […]Feb 26 20257 minsThe biggest story of our time is that the entirety of the Western world is sliding off the cliff —and most citizens of the West are not even aware of it, and have no desire to be made aware of it.

Jan 21, 2025 | newcriterion.com | Anthony Daniels |Pat Lipsky |Theodore Dalrymple |Carl Rollyson

Art:Piet Mondrian, Summer, Dune in Zeeland, ca. 1910, Oil on canvas, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. “Piet Mondrian: Ever further,” at the Guggenheim Museum, New York (through April 20, 2025): Thanks to Hilla Rebay’s keen eye, the Guggenheim has a marvelous collection, Solomon having started out with such heavyweights as Kandinsky, Chagall, and Modigliani. Now, the Guggenheim has begun a series of exhibitions to make sure its permanent collection actually gets to museumgoers.

Jan 17, 2025 | newcriterion.com | Anthony Daniels |David Yezzi |Pat Lipsky |Eva Resnikova

Recent stories of note:“Facing multiple threats, Peruvian archaeologists remain determined to research the Americas’ oldest known civilization”Maria Luisa del Río, The Art NewspaperFor most of us, bands of violent robbers in the desert are thankfully the stuff of old Westerns. But they are an occupational hazard for Ruth Shady, an archaeologist who in 1994 discovered a five-thousand-year-old civilization on the coast of Peru, far preceding the Incas.

Jan 8, 2025 | newcriterion.com | Sarah Ruden |Karen Wilkin |Anthony Daniels |Eric Gibsom

Last night, the New York Philharmonic was conducted by Kevin John Edusei, a German born in 1976. He cuts a dashing figure onstage: shaven head, trim physique, long coat, in the old style. Does it matter, what a conductor looks like? No—but there’s an element of theater in the concert business. The program began with a work by Samy Moussa, a Canadian born in 1984. I will discuss this work later—in a chronicle for the print magazine.