Almost 400 years after the first folio of Shakespeare was published in 1623, scholars believe they have identified the early owner of one... Read More
Edward Snowden, the former U.S. intelligence officer and contractor who in 2013 leaked a trove of classified documents to select journalists... Read More
hat seems to be the emerging bipartisan consensus. “On the evidence we have, the meritocratic ideal ends up being just as undemocratic... Read More
Since the upheavals of the financial crisis of 2008 and the political turbulence of 2016, it has become clear to many that liberalism is, in... Read More
Towards the end of this tale of imperial intellectual expansion, Susan Sontag’s publicist goes to visit his shrink and, dealing with... Read More
What is modern economic growth, and why was it invented in the West? These questions have preoccupied historians for a long time. They... Read More
The year is 2025. China has covertly declared war on the United States of America. The war did not begin as Pentagon planners had... Read More
y latest book, The Poetry and Music of Science (2019), starts with my experiences of visiting schools and working with... Read More
Just over 30 years ago, President Ronald Reagan nominated a former Yale law professor, then serving as a D.C. Circuit judge, to the Supreme... Read More
When George Orwell returned to Barcelona for the third time, on June 20th, 1937, he discovered that the Spanish secret police were... Read More
The Diary of a Gulag Prison Guard By Ivan Chistyakov (2016) 1The diary of Ivan Chistyakov, a senior guard at the Baikal-Amur Corrective... Read More
Bari Weiss has written what must be judged a brave book. That it must be is a badge of shame for the “progressive” America with... Read More
As it dragged on over nearly two years, the Mueller investigation laid bare the inherent difficulties in thinking about or even identifying... Read More
This interview with Ted V. McAllister and Bruce P. Frohnen, authors of Coming Home: Reclaiming America’s Conservative Soul,... Read More
Much ink has recently been spilled (some of it mine) by conservatives debating the nature and relative merits of liberalism, especially... Read More
In the early 2000s, Yekaterinburg was in the grip of a major heroin problem. For Yevgeny Roizman, ‘Russia’s vigilante... Read More
wo volumes of Susan Sontag’s diaries, edited by her son, David Rieff, have been published, and a third is forthcoming. In the preface... Read More
Whatever else one might think of Walter Gropius—the pioneering German architect who founded the Bauhaus a century ago this year and... Read More
‘The lecturer, a short, thickset man with a ruddy face and a big voice, was coming to the end of his talk.” That was the opening sentence of the Time magazine cover story for September 8, 1947. The subject of the story, who swiftly exited the classroom for the nearest pub, was the Oxford University don and best-selling author Clive Staples Lewis. How did a scholar of medieval literature, wit... Read More
n 1915, Albert Einstein wrote a letter to the philosopher and physicist Moritz Schlick, who had recently composed an article on the theory of relativity. Einstein praised it: ‘From the philosophical perspective, nothing nearly as clear seems to have been written on the topic.’ Then he went on to express his intellectual debt to ‘Hume, whose Treatise of Human Nature I had studied avidly and... Read More
Alexander the Great’s death is an unsolved mystery. Was he a victim of natural causes, felled by some kind of fever, or did his marshals assassinate him, angered by his tyrannical ways? An autopsy would decide the question, but it is too late for that. The trail is long cold. All who recalled the terrible fortnight of his dying had their own reputations to protect and they were not under oath ... Read More
In Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story, Wilfred M. McClay has produced an inspiring exploration of America’s past that is out of step with the fashionably fractured narratives...
