But it would be as “compleatly” off the mark to explain ham radio by its vestigial utility as it would have been for Izaak ...

The Eurasian steppe is famous for being the wellspring and thoroughfare of conquerors. It was from there that the Huns ...

This is nothing new: for years writers at leading publications such as The Wall Street Journal and The Economist have ...

Her 1937 short story “The Debutante,” later published by Breton for his anthology of black humor, tells of a debutante who ...

Diego opera at the Met.

There are names that owe their place in one’s mental attic to a single, fragmentary quotation, apart from which one knows nothing about them. Such was Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (1863–1944), who to me ...

Charles Willson Peale, George Washington at Princeton (detail), 1779, Oil on canvas, The Middleton Family Collection. “A Nation of Artists,” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (through July 5, 2027): ...

Ernest Jesuyemi on “Thinking Through Shakespeare,” by David Womersley.

Locke made two revolutions, both successful: the Glorious Revolution of 1688 in England and the American Revolution in 1776.

Whatever is good according to reason,” answered the Greek. This was explosive. By the nature of Mamoun’s position—caliph of ...

A publisher suggested to me some years ago that I write a study of Agatha Christie’s social, political, and psychological ideas. The idea appealed to me because it would enable me—no, oblige me—to ...