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The New Criterion Podcasts — 349 episodes
Book party with Nicholas O’Connell
Fr. George Rutler on Shakespeare & Lincoln
Poetry Party with David Lehman
Brooke Allen on “Good Bones”
Music for a While #108: Singing, playing, and shouting Christmas
Andrew Jones on “The London Club”
Music for a While #107: Songs of the heart, etc.
Music for a While #106: Souvenirs
Music for a While #105: A composer, in words and music
Music for a While #104: Vibrations (good)
Music for a While #103: Songs, arias, etc.
Music for a While #102: A contemplation, a cartoon, etc.
Music for a While #101: A Frenchman’s birthday, etc.
Music for a While #100: Old Hundredth
Dominic Green & D. J. Taylor discuss “What would Orwell do?”
Music for a While #99: Charity, malice & more
Music for a While #98: Paeans, poems, etc.
Music for a While #97: Beach music
Music for a While #96: Ring out
Jeremy Black & James Panero discuss “The scream of steam”
Music for a While #95: In dulci jubilo
Music for a While #94: Zweig & Strauss et al.
Music for a While #93: Thanksgiving time
Music for a While #92: A few of our favorite things
Music for a While #91: Theme songs
Piano Evening with David Dubal & Cecile Licad
Roger Kimball introduces the October issue
D. J. Taylor on George Orwell
Roger Kimball introduces the September issue
Music for a While #90: A winning violinist, etc.
Jeremy Black & James Panero discuss “Britain & the Middle East”
Music for a While #89: Ragtime & other riches
Music for a While #88: Shout it out
Peter Vertacnik reads from “The Nature of Things Fragile”
Music for a While #87: Spring forward
Goodbye, Dr. Banda
Music for a While #86: A Williams gala
Is there life after woke?
Music for a While #85: Our leap baby
Jeremy Black & James Panero in conversation
Music for a While #84: A world of (love) songs
Music for a While #83: Pieces & people to know
Music for a While #82: Christmas carols (& other timely music)
Music for a While #81: Pictures, souvenirs & more
Wilfred M. McClay & James Panero in conversation
Music for a While #80: Telling the time
Music for a While #79: Flicka-fest
Music for a While #78: Musical moments
Music for a While #77: ’Tis of thee
Music for a While #76: Bustin’ out
Roger Kimball introduces the June issue
Music for a While #75: A coronation, a swan & more
The meaning of ballet with Lincoln Jones
Isaac Sligh & James Panero in conversation
Roger Kimball introduces the May issue
Music for a While #74: Speak low, speak high
Music for a While #73: Happy Easter
Adam Kirsch & James Panero in conversation; a reading by Brian Brodeur
Roger Kimball introduces the April issue
Music for a While #72: Songs, dances, laments . . .
Roger Kimball introduces the March issue
Robert Erickson & James Panero in conversation
Music for a While #71: Music in the life of Paul Johnson
Benjamin Riley and James Panero in conversation
Roger Kimball introduces the February issue
Harry Mount addresses the Young Friends
Music for a While #70: Ringtones and other tunes
Roger Kimball introduces the January issue
Music for a While #69: Noël!
Music for a While #68: Preludes and other short wonders
Roger Kimball introduces the December issue
James Panero on “A library by the book”
Music for a While #67: Mornings, etc.
Roger Kimball introduces the November issue
The fourth annual Circle Lecture: “The beginnings” by Joshua T. Katz
Roger Kimball introduces the October issue
Joshua T. Katz and James Panero discuss “The beginnings”
Music for a While #66: September songs
Music for a While #65: Moods, indigo and not
Music for a While #64: Horne-o-rama
Music for a While #63: Little things, big things
Music for a While #62: Beyond the sabre
Music for a While #61: “Just about the best thing ever”
Roger Kimball introduces the June issue
Music for a While #60: A wide and wonderful world
James Panero on “The obtuse bard”
Douglas Murray on “The War on the West”
Roger Kimball introduces the May issue
Music for a While #56: Playing on
Larry P. Arnn and James Panero discuss “Consistency in politics”
Roger Kimball introduces the April issue
The New Criterion Poetry Prize
Kelly Jane Torrance on the front lines of journalism
Roger Kimball introduces the February issue
Music for a While #58: “I hate music”?
Roger Kimball introduces the January issue
Music for a While #57: “Hold out your light”
Music for a While #56: Welcome, Christmas
Roger Kimball introduces the December issue
Music for a While #55: Nuts
Robert Erickson & James Panero discuss Herodotus & more
Music for a While #54: Joy in music
Music for a While #53: Songs and memories
Roger Kimball introduces the November issue
Conrad Black delivers the third annual Circle Lecture: “Is America in irreversible decline?”
Conrad Black & James Panero discuss “Is America in Irreversible Decline?”
Roger Kimball introduces the October issue
Music for a While #52: Strains of Salzburg
James Panero on “New worlds”
Music for a While #51: From Mozart to Borge
Roger Kimball introduces the September issue
Music for a While #50: Pieces from all over
Music for a While #49: Sparks
Music for a While #48: Bach and Bach-ish
Music for a While #47: Just perfect
Roger Kimball introduces the June issue
Music for a While #46: Bach, beekeeping, and more
Mene Ukueberuwa on doing journalism well
Music for a While #45: Spring, sprung, sung
James Panero on “The right angle”
Music for a While #44: Stomping, singing, exulting
James Panero on “Man & beast”
Music for a While #43: Embraceability
Roger Kimball introduces the April issue
Adam Kirsch & James Panero “On ‘getting‘ poetry”
James Panero on “Sublet with Bellini”
Roger Kimball introduces the March issue
Music for a While #42: From a toast to a prayer
Music for a While #41: Well-tempered and Catalan
Isaac Sligh & James Panero discuss Russia & beyond
Roger Kimball introduces the February issue
James Panero on “Next stop”
Music for a While #40: Entering into heaven
Roger Kimball introduces the January issue
Music for a While #39: Sounds of Christmas
James Panero, Benjamin Riley & Andrew L. Shea discuss the 2020 art issue and look ahead to 2021
Music for a While #38: Bits and pieces
James Panero on “Unmaking The Met”
Roger Kimball introduces the December issue
Music for a While #37: Over the moon
Roger Kimball introduces the November issue
The Founders’ priceless legacy, by Myron Magnet
James Panero on Plymouth Rock
Music for a While #36: ‘Remember me’
Roger Kimball introduces the October issue
Music for a While #35: Greatness, consolation, transcendence
Music for a While #34: Twelve, sixteen, and other ages
Music for a While #33: ‘Great are companions such as these’
Roger Kimball introduces the September issue
Music for a While #32: Gettin’ jiggy
James Panero on “a classical illness”
Music for a While #31: Four-handed phenomena
Music for a While #30: A joyful jolt
Music for a While #29: America: plenty good room
Music for a While #28: Poems, songs, and shouts
Eric Gibson and James Panero discuss sculpture in exile and culture under siege
Music for a While #27: Vexed and unvexed.
Roger Kimball introduces the June issue
Music for a While #26: Time, timelessness, etc.
James Panero on “the woman who saw the future.”
Music for a While #25: Sons, daughters, and others
Roger Kimball introduces the May issue
Music for a While #24: Springtime, round two
James Panero on plagues, art & Venice
Music for a While #23: Springtime
Roger Kimball introduces the April issue
Music for a While #22: Music as Balm—and Delight
Music for a While #21: A Little Program for Kids (and Their Parents, and Others)
Roger Kimball introduces the March issue
Music for a While #20: Upward and Onward
Jay Nordlinger & James Panero on Music Criticism
James Panero on The Frick Collection
Music for a While #19: From Rosa to Mirella
Roger Kimball: Sovereignty or submission
John O’Sullivan on the Left v. the nation.
Roger Kimball introduces the February 2020 issue of The New Criterion
Music for a While #18: Maestro/Mahatma Jansons
Michael Anton on the War of Ideas
Angelo M. Codevilla on Collective & Individual Liberty
John Fonte on Sovereignty & its Enemies
Victor Davis Hanson on the Meaning of Citizenship.
Music for a While #17: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
James Piereson on the Idea of an American Nation
Roger Kimball introduces the January 2020 issue of The New Criterion
Music for a While #16: Merry Christmas
James Panero remembers John Simon
Music For a While #15: Erotic and Other Evenings
James Hankins & James Panero discuss Leonardo da Vinci
Music for a While #14: Fightin’ Words and Good Music
Roger Kimball introduces the December 2019 issue of The New Criterion
James Panero on American architectural style
Music for a While #13: Rustles, Hisses, and Slogs
James Panero on Turner’s watercolors
Roger Kimball introduces the November 2019 issue of The New Criterion
Music for a While #12: Holy stuff (and other stuff)
Annette Kirk, James Panero & Roger Kimball on the literary legacy of Russell Kirk
“Leninthink” by Gary Saul Morson
Music for a While #11: Immortality
Gary Saul Morson & James Panero discuss “Leninthink”
Roger Kimball introduces the October 2019 issue of The New Criterion
Music For a While #10: Pure joy
Music for a While #9: Who Cares?
Roger Kimball accepts the Phillips Award
Music for a While #8: Festival time
James Panero on Venice's Last Judgment
Roger Kimball introduces the September 2019 issue of The New Criterion
Music for a While #7: Hello, old friends — and new.
Nightmare at the Museum: a discussion between James Panero and Andrew Shea
Music for a While #6: The best song ever written
Music For a While #5: America!
Music for a While #4: A tutu or two
Music for a While #3: Soft days and harder
Music for a While #2: Postcards
Music for a While #1: Hello
Roger Kimball receives the 2019 Bradley Prize
Andrew Roberts & James Panero discuss Churchill & Burke
Roger Kimball introduces the May issue of The New Criterion
James Panero on Jeffrey Hart
Roger Kimball introduces the April issue of The New Criterion
David Yezzi & James Panero discuss the 2019 poetry issue; a reading by Nicholas Friedman
Roger Kimball introduces the March issue of The New Criterion
James Piereson & James Panero discuss the Trump presidency.
Daniel McCarthy & James Panero discuss conservatism in the modern age
Roger Kimball introduces the February issue of The New Criterion
Gerald J. Russello on Kirk & the unwritten constitution
R. R. Reno on the politics of the imagination
Daniel McCarthy on Russell Kirk, worldly conservative
Daniel J. Mahoney on Russell Kirk & the politics of prudence
Roger Kimball on Russell Kirk’s centenary
James Panero on the ghost stories of Russell Kirk
Roger Kimball introduces the January issue of The New Criterion
James Panero on college architecture
William Logan & James Panero discuss poetry & criticism
Roger Kimball introduces the December issue of The New Criterion
John Simon & James Panero discuss “Critics & criticism”
Parlo Come Pittore: A discussion on the life & work of Andrew Forge
Roger Kimball introduces the November issue of The New Criterion
Roger Kimball introduces the October issue of The New Criterion
James Panero on the legacy of J. Marion Sims
Eric Gibson & James Panero discuss the work of Alberto Giacometti
Roger Kimball introduces the September issue of The New Criterion
Laura Jacobs & James Panero discuss ballet & Jacobs’s new book, “Celestial Bodies”
Roger Kimball introduces the June issue of The New Criterion
Victor Davis Hanson accepts the Edmund Burke Award (complete remarks)
Victor Davis Hanson and James Panero discuss “Burke today.”
Roger Kimball introduces the May issue of The New Criterion
David Yezzi & James Panero discussion; a reading by Poetry Prize winner Moira Egan
Roger Kimball introduces the April issue of The New Criterion
Art & an affront: Roger Kimball introduces the March issue of The New Criterion
Dominic Green & James Panero discuss “Puttin’ on the style”
Classical music spring preview with Eric C. Simpson and Jay Nordlinger
Marco Grassi & James Panero discuss “E. V. Thaw, 1927–2018”
Michael J. Lewis & James Panero discuss “Vincent Scully, 1920–2017”
“Why populism fails” featuring James Piereson
“The political crisis of our times...” and “Is it a free country?...”
“Populists & the past: lessons from the Roman, Venetian & Dutch Republics”
"Populism and its critics" featuring Roger Kimball, George Nash and Andrew C. McCarthy
Fall classical music preview with Eric C. Simpson and Jay Nordlinger
David Pryce-Jones & James Panero discuss "Miłosz Among the Ruins"
Roger Kimball at The Heritage Foundation
James Panero & David Yezzi discuss the 2017 poetry issue; a reading by Poetry Prize winner John Foy
Classical Music Spring Preview with Eric C. Simpson & Jay Nordlinger
George Knight: Yale Center for British Architecture – Conserving Kahn
Michael J. Lewis: I swear by Apollo
Bruce Cole: The museum as "town hall"
Karen Wilkin: Less can be more
Eric Gibson: Notes on the postmodern museum
James Panero: The museum of the present
Roger Kimball introduces "The Future of Permanence"
Classical music season preview with Eric C. Simpson & Jay Nordlinger
James Panero, Eric Simpson, Benjamin Riley, and Mene Ukueberuwa discuss the Hilton Kramer Fellowship
Roger Kimball, James Panero, and the Editors discuss highlights from the September 2016 issue
James Panero and Benjamin Riley discuss the new “newcriterion.com”
Roger Kimball, James Panero, and Dominic Green on the Yale Center For British Art
J. S. Bach: Largo
Anthony Daniels & James Panero on "Good and Evil in the Garden of Art"
Classical Music Spring Preview with Eric Simpson & Jay Nordlinger
Steven Semes & James Panero on the "architecture of place"
Classical music season preview with Eric C. Simpson & Jay Nordlinger
Social Affairs Unit in London: Part 1 of 2
Social Affairs Unit in London: Part 2 of 2
Eve of SAU in London: John O’Sullivan presents “The President, the Pope, and the Prime Minister”
SAU in London: The Impact of Small Magazines
Andrew Roberts on his book “Masters and Commanders”
The Walter Duranty Prize for Journalistic Mendacity
Introduction to The Kennedy Phenomenon
The Kennedy Phenomenon: "Watching the Kennedy Train-Wreck"
The Kennedy Phenomenon: "The Many Misjudgments of Richard Hofstadter"
The Kennedy Phenomenon: "The Kennedy Assassination and the Kennedy Legend"
The Kennedy Phenomenon: "JFK, Conservative"
Question & answer session from The Kennedy Phenomenon
Edward Jay Epstein on the mysteries surrounding the Kennedy assassination
Andrew C. McCarthy talks Islam
Poet George Green reads from his award-winning Lord Byron's Foot
James Panero on price gouging at the Met, with Fred Dicker
Classical recital: Jules Massenet's "Méditation," from Thaïs
Classical recital: Beethoven's "Spring" sonata, Allegro
James Panero talks fracking with Fred Dicker
The Pillars of Liberty: "The Age of Discussion" by Roger Kimball
The Pillars of Liberty: "Marshall's Men: American High Command in the Second World War"
The Pillars of Liberty: "Patriotism, Allegiance, and the Nation State" by Andrew Roberts
The Pillars of Liberty: "Liberty: Do We Need a Law for That" by Andrew C. McCarthy
The Pillars of Liberty: "The Future of the Press" by Keith Windschuttle
The Pillars of Liberty: "Liberty is an Evolutionary Mechanism" by Kevin D. Williamson
Remarks from the Hilton Kramer memorial reception
Emily Esfahani Smith on the Mike Huckabee Show
Brian Lehrer Show: What's a Museum?
Anthony Daniels on the Euro Crisis
Andrew C. McCarthy: The Muslim Threat
Roger Kimball: The Grim Future of Statism
TNC/SAU Conference: Is America in Decline? Part 1 of 12
TNC/SAU Conference: Is America in Decline? Part 2 of 12
TNC/SAU Conference: Is America in Decline? Part 3 of 12
TNC/SAU Conference: Is America in Decline? Part 4 of 12
TNC/SAU Conference: Is America in Decline? Part 5 of 12
TNC/SAU Conference: Is America in Decline? Part 6 of 12
TNC/SAU Conference: Is America in Decline? Part 7 of 12
TNC/SAU Conference: Is America in Decline? Part 8 of 12
TNC/SAU Conference: Is America in Decline? Part 9 of 12
TNC/SAU Conference: Is America in Decline? Part 10 of 12
TNC/SAU Conference: Is America in Decline? Part 11 of 12
TNC/SAU Conference: Is America in Decline? Part 12 of 12
Lord Conrad Black on American Culture
Amb. John Bolton Keynote Address at Limited Government Conference
The Future of Artists' Lofts
Roger Scruton on "I Drink Therefore I Am: A Philosopher's Guide to Wine."
Elucidations & Corrections: Arts Criticism
Swallow Anthology Reading at The Grolier
Social Affairs Unit Conference: Part 1
Social Affairs Unit Conference: Part 2
Social Affairs Unit Conference: Part 3
Social Affairs Unit Conference: Part 4
Risky Arts Business
The Enduring Legacy of William F. Buckley Jr.
The Culture Crash
"Taking the Occasion," poems by Daniel Brown
Jay Nordlinger on the future of classical music, from an evening with The New Criterion.
Roger Kimball on Tenured Radicals with John J. Miller
The Milt Rosenberg Show: Free Speech in an age of Jihad
'What Is to Be Done? Legislative Opportunities and Pitfalls,' PANEL THREE AND CONCLUDING REMARKS
Roger Kimball on liberalism's response to Islam
'The Dimming of Liberty: Legal Jihad and the Criminalization of Resistance'
'Suppressing Discussion of Islam,' PANEL TWO from Free Speech in an Age of Jihad
'The Face of Libel Tourism,' OPENING REMARKS AND PANEL ONE from Free Speech in an Age of Jihad
Joseph Epstein on the future of small magazines
John O’Sullivan on Poland and the Cold War, from an evening with the Friends of The New Criterion
James Panero discusses Classical Realism on NPR's All Things Considered
Peter Pettus & James Panero discuss "From Selma to Montgomery"
Remarks from the Hilton Kramer memorial reception