Counterpoints: In praise of
The New Criterion is one of my favorite magazines and now celebrating its twenty-fifth anniversary. In honor of its twenty-fifth anniversary it has compiled Counterpoints: 25 Years of The New Criterion on Culture and the Arts. The book is packed full of brilliant essays of the kind that distinguishes the magazine. At Pajamas Media today Roger L. Simon expresses his appreciation of the book in "Mau-mauing the multiculturalists." Roger writes:
Many of the writers in this anthology – Mark Steyn, David Frum, Theodore Dalrymple, Robert H. Bork, etc. - are considered “Lions of the Right.” (They are all at their best here, urged on, I suppose, by the reputation of The New Criterion.) But the collection is not so much ideologically pure as it is critically pure. Quality governs. Critics like John Simon appear as well as the excellent dance critic Laura Jacobs whose husband is not known to be an admirer of Pajamas Media (to put it mildly). In the spirit of literary excellence, we forgive him. Everyone else, get this book. It will enrich you.
