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James Tuttleton

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  • 2 weeks ago | 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.

  • 2 weeks ago | 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.

  • 2 weeks ago | newcriterion.com | Douglas Murray |Roger Kimball |Andrew Shea |James Tuttleton

    “Modern American conservatism has two founding fathers: Edmund Burke and William F. Buckley Jr.” The description is Charles Krauthammer’s. There are other paeans.

  • 2 weeks ago | newcriterion.com | Douglas Murray |Roger Kimball |Andrew Shea |James Tuttleton

    In 1874, the eighteen-year-old John Singer Sargent and his American expatriate parents moved to Paris, from Florence, where he was born in 1856, partly in quest of better art teaching for the preternaturally talented teenager. Sargent spent the next decade based in the French capital, until he moved to London, where he lived until his death in 1925.

  • 2 weeks ago | newcriterion.com | Douglas Murray |Roger Kimball |Andrew Shea |James Tuttleton

    Editors’ note: The following is an edited version of remarks delivered at The New Criterion’s gala on April 24, 2025, honoring Heather Mac Donald with the twelfth Edmund Burke Award for Service to Culture and Society. I would like to thank The New Criterion for this generous honor—hugely undeserved, I would say, but who am I to question Editor and Publisher Roger Kimball? Throughout 2024, you see, Roger spoke confidently about the outcome of the November election.

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