I am the Executive Editor of The New Criterion. I write for the journal each month and have been on staff since 2002.

I am also a contributor to The Wall Street Journal, City Journal, The New York Post, New York magazine, the Spectator, The New York Times Book Review, and other publications.

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As a member of the International Association of Art Critics, I lecture on art, politics, and cultural policy, speaking at Yale, Columbia, Brown, Deerfield Academy, Baylor University, The New York Studio School, The College of the Holy Cross, and before the New York Association of Scholars.

I have served as a panelist on the National Endowment for the Arts, a visiting artist and Literary Lion juror at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a panelist for the College Art Association, a juror for NurtureArt, and has been a guest on All Things Considered, The Takeaway, The Brian Lehrer Show, The Independents on Fox Business, CNN Tonight with Don Lemon, Fox’s Tucker Carlson Tonight, and other programs.

In 2013 I was a William and Barbara Edwards Media Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University.

As a curator, I organized Bushwick's Beat Nite, "The Joe Bonham Project" at Storefront Gallery, "Joe Zucker: Armada" at the National Arts Club, and "Bushwick Chronicle: Photography by Meryl Meisler, Writing by James Panero" at Stout Projects. 

Before joining The New Criterion I was a graduate student in the History of Art and Architecture department at Brown University, where I was awarded the University Scholarship. My area of focus was late-nineteenth-century French modernism under the advisement of Kermit Champa.

I am a former editor of National Review. I worked in Switzerland as a writing assistant to William F. Buckley Jr. on his novel Spytime: The Undoing of James Jesus Angleton (Harcourt, 2000). I wrote about the experience here.

I am a graduate of Dartmouth College, where I majored in Classics and was editor of The Dartmouth Review.

As an author, I am a contributor to Counterpoints: 25 Years of The New Criterion on Culture and the Arts (Ivan R. Dee, 2007), The State of Art Criticism, edited by James Elkins and Michael Newman (Routledge, 2008), Future Tense: The Lessons of Culture in an Age of Upheaval (Encounter Books, 2012), Arts in Bushwick: Making History (AiB 2016), Old House of Fear: A Novel by Russell Kirk (with a new introduction; Criterion Books), The Critical Temper: Interventions from The New Criterion at 40 (Encounter Books), Where Next: Western Civilization at the Crossroads (Encounter Books), and Ralph Ellison: Centurion (Century).

I was born in 1975 and have been a lifelong resident of New York's Upper West Side, where I live now with my wife and our two children. I have served as a trustee of Trinity School and chair of its alumni board. I am a member of the Century Association.

“A preeminent voice of American cultural conservatism.” —ARTINFO

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