James Panero

The New Criterion is pleased to share that our current Hilton Kramer Fellow, Anatoly Grablevsky, has been awarded the 2026 Joseph Rago Memorial Fellowship for Excellence in Journalism. He will start at @WSJopinion this September. @TFASorg editorandpublisher.com/stories/the-fu…

@WhitStillman Sounds like he prefers good literary criticism

What garbage.

Our critic’s pick: “Giuseppe Penone: The Reflection of Bronze,” at Gagosian (April 22–July 22). @Gagosian #2" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">newcriterion.com/dispatch/the-c…

“Klee’s inventive and experimental mode, occupying a liminal space between depiction and description, became part of the post-war visual vocabulary.” Read “Escape artist,” by James Panero. @JamesPanero @TheJewishMuseum newcriterion.com/article/escape…

Yesterday, we honored Harvey Mansfield at our best-attended Edmund Burke Award gala to date. Thank you to all who joined us. Become a Friend of The New Criterion to join our events, including the fall’s upcoming Circle Lecture with Lionel Shriver. newcriterion.com/donate/

Kudos to @Dartmouth, a different kind of Ivy. Israeli flags cover the lawn in front of Dartmouth Hall, the most central and visible place on campus, in honor of Yom HaZikaron, Israeli Memorial Day. Sponsored by Hillel and Chabad together.

Lovely weekend to visit Green-Wood Cemetery

“Schiele cropped his figures in harsh and unsparing perspectives, exposing them in a new light. Confronted by naked and contorted bodies, he employed his own penetrating vision.” Read “X-Ray visionary,” by James Panero. @JamesPanero @NeueGalerieNY newcriterion.com/article/x-ray-…

Last week, @newcriterion hosted a party for David Lehman, winner of the magazine's 25th poetry prize. You can hear how much fun we had, and what a wonderful presence Lehman is, here: newcriterion.com/multimedia/poe…

My latest @newcriterion on Egon Schiele @NeueGalerieNY

Our critic’s pick: Marilyn Maye at 54 Below (April 6–19). @JamesPanero @54Below #4" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">newcriterion.com/dispatch/the-c…

@PolicyWorkshop3 @AVCupdate A very special evening. Thank you.

Thank you to the great team at the American Veterans Center @AVCupdate for a moving and inspiring conference in New York City last evening marking the 25th anniversary year of the 9/11 attacks. We were privileged to hear General Richard Myers and others recount stories of courage and resilience from that dark day.

“Schiele cropped his figures in harsh and unsparing perspectives, exposing them in a new light. Confronted by naked and contorted bodies, he employed his own penetrating vision.” Read “X-Ray visionary,” by James Panero. @JamesPanero @NeueGalerieNY newcriterion.com/article/x-ray-…

Our critic’s pick: “Raphael: Sublime Poetry,” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through June 28). @JamesPanero @metmuseum #2" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">newcriterion.com/dispatch/the-c…

Our critic’s pick: “Art, Place and Imagination in ‘Nocturne,’” featuring Simon and Simone Dinnerstein, at the Center for Brooklyn History (March 30). @brooklynhistory @JamesPanero #2" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">newcriterion.com/dispatch/the-c…

Fascinating story on the medallic history behind the Super Bowl coin toss. americanhistory.si.edu/explore/storie…

My latest for @RCInvestigates. Discuss. The Scapegoat: How One Man’s Career Was Ended by MeToo realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2026/…

Most convincing argument I've read recently that the Pentagon knows what it's doing, from ... Al Jazeera aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/…

This is not a bug. It's a feature. We can mock it all we want, writing cutesy headlines like "at 20, he was an aspiring Viennese painter; at 56, he was facing the Allies in a bunker in Berlin." But the truth is deeper and more troubling. What we're seeing here is the result of the left's near-total command of everything we're allowed to know, say, and think. It's the stuff my friend @Jacob__Siegel writes about in his brilliant new book, "The Information State." When a perfect machine that includes the Democrat party, mainstream media, intelligence agencies, Big Tech, and corporate America comes together and runs an intel operation on you, this is what reality starts to look like. And it's not something to be merely laughed at; it's something to be crushed, which means making very significant changes to how you live your life, who you trust, and what you value.

You're either communist or anticommunist; there's no such thing as 'not communist'