The noblest expression of the critic is the one who can praise the ideal of a thing, while accurately describing the flaws in its manifestation.
The thing can be a place, artwork, community, or movement.
The critic gives words and reason to the transpersonal creative force that drives the artist, who often know not what they do.
In this lens, MLK was a culture critic. He showed the distance between the ideal of America and the reality.
The Drama of Language - Sigurd Burckhardt
The Space of Literature - blanchot
The Spirit of Terrorism - Baudrillard
https://counter-currents.com/2013/07/the-japanese-hara-theory-and-its-relations-to-east-and-west-part-2/ - energy work / theory criticism from evola
Reviews, Summaries, Reactions, and Criticism I Find Actually Valuable
Slajov Zizek on the Titanic, the Opium War and cold evil