» Gary Shapiro's Tribute to Hilton Kramer

An article by Gary Shapiro in the NY Sun abut the honoring of Hilton Kramer, the founder of the New Criterion,

a magazine that recalls a time - according to the editor's note in its first issue - "when criticism was more strictly concerned to distinguish achievement from failure, to identify and uphold a standard of quality." It has sought to "speak plainly and vigorously about the problems that beset the life of the arts and the life of the mind in our society."

Norman Podhoretz honored Kramer this way:

"More than any other critic of our time - more energetically, more relentlessly, more brilliantly, more courageously - Hilton has stood out against the degradation of modernism in the arts and the symbiotic degradation of liberalism in politics and culture," Commentary magazine editor-at-large Norman Podhoretz said at the dinner.

(ht: John Miller at the Corner)