
Douglas Murray
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newcriterion.com | Mark Judge |Robert Erickson |Andrew Shea |Douglas Murray
In 2020 a brilliant novel was published called The Standardization of Demoralization Procedures, by Jennifer Hofmann. Kirkus called it “a remarkable first novel that reads like the work of a seasoned pro.”Despite great reviews, Standardization did not hit the bestseller lists. At the time of publication, the country was focused on the George Floyd riots and the fallout from COVID. Still, for those of us who read the book, it left a lasting impression.
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newcriterion.com | Brian Anderson |Andrew Shea |Douglas Murray |Roger Kimball
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2 weeks ago |
newcriterion.com | Heather Mac Donald |Douglas Murray |Daniel Oliver |Roger Kimball
Rankings are often controversial. For example, the latest Michelin Guide considers the best two restaurants in Washington, D.C., to be minibar and Jônt, whereas the magazine Washingtonian chooses Albi and Dо̄gon. And while U.S. News & World Report ranks Princeton the country’s number one “national university,” the QS World University Rankings call MIT the top institution of higher education in the world.
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newcriterion.com | Douglas Murray |Roger Kimball |Andrew Shea |James Tuttleton
Volatility today leads us to look at the foundations of the international world that is now being transformed. The key decade was the 1940s, the period of the establishment of American superpower status, the destruction of the German, Italian, and Japanese empires, the expansion of the Soviet empire, and the Communist conquest of China.
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newcriterion.com | Douglas Murray |Roger Kimball |Andrew Shea |James Tuttleton
Employed in my youth at John Wanamaker’s department store, an institution in Philadelphia until it disappeared, I was sometimes cheered by encountering employees who told me of their fascinations with history. One such colleague I remember was a burly black shelf-stocker. “My girl,” he told me, “is Queen Victoria. She got her family on thrones all over Europe.”So she did, to the point that she was considered the “grandmother of Europe,” through marriages rather than military conquests.
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