When did World War I begin? In his new book The Blood-Dimmed Tide: Central Europe’s Long Great War, 1905–1921, Jesse Kauffman, a history professor at Eastern Michigan University, provides a novel ...

On high culture, Ronnie Landfield, Rembrandt, urban architecture & more from the world of culture. Ronnie Landfield, Across the Wall, 2016, Acrylic on canvas, Findlay Galleries. “Ronnie Landfield: ...

Raymond Asquith (1878–1916)—the son of the British prime minister H. H. Asquith, a wit, scholar, barrister, and, at the end of his life, soldier—was the stuff of legend. In the years before 1914, he ...

The performance was dull. “Insuperably dull,” to borrow a phrase from William F. Buckley Jr. (who was describing a book).

She pointed out that recent decisions by the Court have set off a new wave of partisan gerrymandering by both political ...

The question before us is this: what do progressives really want? It’s always worth attending to what people tell you they ...

On Marco Rubio’s address in Athens.

On the nineteenth-century French historian & literary critic. We live in an age that has grown not merely impatient with ...

In New York just recently, we had the opportunity to hear a Haydn mass, the one known as the “Nelson Mass,” or, as the ...

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.