Paul du Quenoy on a new production of “Die Frau ohne Schatten,” by Richard Strauss, at the Aix-en-Provence Festival.

Now, neither classics nor philology is what it used to be. And the combination—classical philology—is in evident trouble. The ...

On a new production of Wagner’s Die Walküre, at the Bavarian State Opera.

The Sun Valley Music Festival in Idaho is part of a constellation of prominent festivals that dot the Rocky Mountains’ ski towns each summer. I dropped in on the forty-second season to hear a ...

I met the Brazilian philosopher Olavo de Carvalho more than twenty years ago when he came to the United States in what seemed like his transition into intellectual and political networks north of the ...

It is a great irony that at a time when Facebook and Twitter are closing accounts of conservatives for allegedly promoting “hate,” and conservative speakers are banned from college campuses for (as it ...

Democrats won recent elections in New York City, New Jersey, and Virginia by calling attention to the “affordability crisis”—the claim that prices are too high and stretching the budgets of most ...

Sally Quinn won’t return my emails. Perhaps Quinn, the doyenne of Washington, D.C., and the widow of the Washington Post legend Ben Bradlee, is overwrought. As she recently lamented in The New York ...

Anne Boleyn’s reputation was tarnished when she was beheaded and her daughter Elizabeth I was deemed “illegitimate.” Henry VIII, perhaps embarrassed by his second failed marriage (it was not to be his ...

On Ralston College’s excellence in classics. There is more to Ralston than Greek and Latin. But nothing sets Ralston apart more than its professors’ ability to take young people who do not know these ...

“Quomodo dicitur Latine laptop, magister?” On the left a herd of goats, and to the right a yet-hungrier herd of wide-eyed tourists, ruminate upon the ancient terrain. I chew over this question as the ...