Life at the Kramer Hilton

This past fall, Hilton Kramer, America’s angriest art critic, began his fifteenth year editing the New Criterion, the neocon journal of art and culture. In Kramer’s lead comment in the journal’s “special anniversary issue,” he rededicated the journal to fighting leftist “subversion”—which makes him sound like J. Edgar Hoover. In fact, he was not talking about the subversion of American national security, but rather of something he calls “disinterested criticism.” Th...