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I'm curious about your basis for that. It's not that I'm familiar with it, and am claiming that it's not. It's just that, based on a few minutes of browsing, n

I'm curious about your basis for that. It's not that I'm familiar with it, and am claiming that it's not. It's just that, based on a few minutes of browsing, nothing obviously "avidly pro-Trump" jumped out. Edit: I also browsed some discussion of other submissions from it, and didn't find anything obviously politicized. But then, I didn't read it all.

tptacek 7y ago
You're not meant to immediately sense it; that's part of the point. The New Criterion was started as a corrective to supposed left-wing orthodoxy in lit/crit, and spent time as a house organ of (true) neoconservative, but was inherited by Roger Kimball, who I believe you can fairly sum up by citation to his non-ironically titled essay "Trump As Pericles".
- mirimir 7y ago
  Ah. Thank you. I'm going to have to read that one. Edit: OK, it was short.[0] But I also came across an article by historian Matthew A. Sears,[1] which points out ... > There is a much darker side to Pericles’ legacy, however. For one, he narrowed the group eligible for Athenian citizenship, requiring both parents to be Athenian citizens — a requirement, ironically, that his own children did not meet. > And, as is increasingly the view among ancient historians, he bore perhaps more responsibility than anyone else for the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War, a ruinous 27-year conflict between Athens and Sparta that ended in Athens’ defeat and the temporary overthrow of the world’s first democracy. > A frequent criticism of Pericles among his contemporaries was that he took a hard line against Sparta and pushed his city toward war not due to any higher principle or strategic goal, but to deflect charges brought against his closest friends and political allies. 0) https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/269472/ https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/269472/ 1) https://theconversation.com/do-something-trump-pericles-and-the-art-of-deflection-86972 https://theconversation.com/do-something-trump-pericles-and-...

tptacek 7y ago

You're not meant to immediately sense it; that's part of the point. The New Criterion was started as a corrective to supposed left-wing orthodoxy in lit/crit, and spent time as a house organ of (true) neoconservative, but was inherited by Roger Kimball, who I believe you can fairly sum up by citation to his non-ironically titled essay "Trump As Pericles".

mirimir 7y ago
Ah. Thank you. I'm going to have to read that one. Edit: OK, it was short.[0] But I also came across an article by historian Matthew A. Sears,[1] which points out ... > There is a much darker side to Pericles’ legacy, however. For one, he narrowed the group eligible for Athenian citizenship, requiring both parents to be Athenian citizens — a requirement, ironically, that his own children did not meet. > And, as is increasingly the view among ancient historians, he bore perhaps more responsibility than anyone else for the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War, a ruinous 27-year conflict between Athens and Sparta that ended in Athens’ defeat and the temporary overthrow of the world’s first democracy. > A frequent criticism of Pericles among his contemporaries was that he took a hard line against Sparta and pushed his city toward war not due to any higher principle or strategic goal, but to deflect charges brought against his closest friends and political allies. 0) https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/269472/ https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/269472/ 1) https://theconversation.com/do-something-trump-pericles-and-the-art-of-deflection-86972 https://theconversation.com/do-something-trump-pericles-and-...