James S. Panero (born December 15, 1975) is an American cultural critic and the

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,'' a conservative culture journal.

Early life

Panero was born in New York City, and grew up on the

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. He attended the preparatory school

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in Manhattan. Panero graduated from Dartmouth in 1998, where he majored in

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. In his sophomore year he was appointed editor-in-chief of ''

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''.

Career

Panero joined the editorial staff of ''

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'' upon graduation. In 1999 he worked in

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as a writing assistant to

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on his novel ''Spytime: The Undoing of James Jesus Angleton'' (Harcourt, 2000). Before joining ''The New Criterion'' in 2001, Panero was a graduate student in the History of Art and Architecture department at

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, where he was awarded the University Scholarship. His area of focus was late-nineteenth-century French modernism. Panero became the monthly gallery critic of ''The New Criterion'' in 2003. Panero has written for ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

City Journal ''City Journal'' is a public policy magazine and website, published by the conservative Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, that covers a range of topics on urban affairs, such as policing, education, housing, and other issues. The magazine ...

'', ''Philanthropy Magazine'', ''

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'', the ''

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'', ''Humanities Magazine'', ''

'', ''

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'', ''The Claremont Review'', ''The University Bookman'', and ''The Dartmouth Alumni Magazine''. In 2007, he became a regular writer for ''

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''. In 2013, he was a William and Barbara Edwards Media Fellow at the

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. Panero is the co-editor of ''The Dartmouth Review Pleads Innocent'', an anthology of the newspaper published by the

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in Spring 2006. He is 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), and "Future Tense: The Lessons of Culture in an Age of Upheaval" (Encounter Books, 2012). He is married to the writer and teacher Dara Mandle. In June 2019, he appeared on Tucker Carlson's Fox News to argue against the

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Exhibitions

*"The Joe Bonham Project: An Exhibition Curated by James Panero": wartime illustrators document the rehabilitation of wounded warriors. On view at Storefront gallery, Bushwick, Brooklyn, September 1 through September 18, 2011.

Works

*''Future Tense: The Lessons of Culture in an Age of Upheaval'' (Roger Kimball, editor, James Panero, contributing writer on "What's a Museum?") *"The State of Art Criticism (The Art Seminar)" (James Elkins, editor; James Panero, contributing writer) *"Re-Enchantment (The Art Seminar)" (James Elkins and David Morgan, editors; James Panero, contributing writer) *''The Dartmouth Review Pleads Innocent'' (James Panero and Stefan Beck, editors)

References

External links

JamesPanero.com
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