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.

It didn’t take long for Sen. Michael Bennet, a Colorado lawmaker who is actively exploring a 2020 presidential run, to realize how much Democrats in Iowa knew about him as he stepped into the first ...