Presents a selection of incisive writings from "The New Criterion", the magazine that has emerged as the foremost voice of critical dissent in the culture wars. This work shows us what the cultural war in the US is all about, or who ought to win it.

This is an abundant selection of incisive writings from "The New Criterion", the magazine that has emerged as the foremost voice of critical dissent in the culture wars. No one who reads this volume can be in any doubt what the cultural war in the U.S. is all about, or who ought to win it. - Paul Johnson, "Wall Street Journal".