She pointed out that recent decisions by the Court have set off a new wave of partisan gerrymandering by both political ...
On Pericles, William Hogarth, Tomás Luis de Victoria, Russell Kirk, Frederic Edwin Church & more from the world of culture. William Hogarth, A Rake’s Progress, Plate 8: In Bedlam, 1763, Engraving, ...
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None dare say “battle of the bands.” Apologies: I just did. Three weeks ago, the New York Philharmonic, under Gustavo Dudamel, played Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 in David Geffen Hall. Last night, the ...
On the nineteenth-century French historian & literary critic. We live in an age that has grown not merely impatient with ...
On Marco Rubio’s address in Athens.
On the 2026 Nobel Prizes for Literature & Peace.
Henrik Bering on his education at the Krebs’ School in Copenhagen.
Andrew Stuttaford on recently published fiction by Frederic Prokosch, Jon Fosse, Nicholson Baker & Robert G. Penner.
James Bowman on the threats of artificial intelligence & Democratic corruption.
For years as an associate priest, I would celebrate Mass every Wednesday in the crypt of St Bride’s, Fleet Street—known as ...
Marc M. Arkin on “The Banker Who Made America,” by Richard Vague.