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Oct 24, 2024 | newcriterion.com | Douglas Murray |William Logan |Simon Heffer |Myron Magnet

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Dec 20, 2023 | newcriterion.com | Myron Magnet

Don’t mistake the sumptuously produced, lavishly illustrated America’s Collection: The Art & Architecture of the Diplomatic Reception Rooms at the U.S. Department of State for just one more coffee-table bagatelle.1 It’s an important reminder that architecture is as much about the interior as the exterior of buildings, that its role is to adorn and enhance the activity it houses as well as to present a gracious face to the public world.

Oct 19, 2023 | newcriterion.com | Wilfred M. McClay |Victor Davis Hanson |Anthony Daniels |Myron Magnet

November 2023 Closely examined lives by Andrew Stuttaford On My Search for Warren Harding by Robert Plunket, One Woman Show by Christine Coulson, The Stronghold by Dino Buzzati & The Wizard of the Kremlin by Giuliano da Empoli.

Oct 18, 2023 | newcriterion.com | Myron Magnet

Martin Peretz’s memoir, The Controversialist: Arguments with Everyone, Left Right and Center, is at once deeply interesting and profoundly sad.1 Interesting because, in his long career at the center of America’s most elite culture-shaping institutions—he was the owner, publisher, and editor-in-chief of The New Republic for thirty-seven years and, for nearly half a century, a teacher and later the head of Harvard’s Social Studies program—he taught, mentored, and employed a constellation of...

Jul 16, 2023 | ruthfullyyours.com | Myron Magnet |Ruth King

The Antiracist Racket And its mind-forg’d manacles. by Myron Magnet Posted By Ruth King on July 16th, 2023 https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/the-antiracist-racket/Beyond its falsity, there is no current idea so destructive as the fiction that America is systemically racist.