False Criteria

It was inevitable that the neo-conservative reaction of the 1980s would spread from politics to culture. It has done this with a vengeance in the pages of The New Criterion, the journal of cultural criticism launched in September 1982 by Hilton Kramer, former art critic for the New York Times. The ideological slant of the journal was boldly enunciated with the very first number. “Standards,” “values,” and “morality” were to be preserved over against the onslaught of countervailing tendencies — in truth, tendencies that possessed different standards and values from Kramer and his obedient troop of self-appointed guardians of cultural purity

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