“Little Russia” referred approximately to the portion of the Russian Empire that is today within the borders of Ukraine. The ...

Mexico was unusually free-spending and smart in pumping resources into education, public health, and medicine, particularly ...

Lunching at Oxford in 1967 with Elizabeth Taylor and his Oxford mentor, Nevill Coghill, the actor Richard Burton was ...

Last night, playing the variations, Levit did some crying out and whistling. I can’t remember hearing him do this before. In any event, if Eileen Farrell had “a right to sing the blues,” Igor Levit ...

Of the paper trail left by Marlowe’s life, no document has been more pored over than the report of the inquest into his death ...

Editors’ note: The following passage is excerpted from Book III of the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, translated by Aaron ...

The phrase “the warmth of collectivism” rightly elicited by far the most comment in Mamdani’s speech. After all, the ...

Weekly recommendations from the Editors on what to read, see, and hear in the world of culture.

The concertmaster came out and played an A on the piano, for the orchestra to tune. The first piece would be a half step ...

Anatoly Grablevsky is the thirteenth and current Hilton Kramer Fellow at The New Criterion.

Isabel Leonard is an American mezzo-soprano. Our program booklet at Carnegie Hall said “Isabel Leonard, Vocalist.” “Vocalist” ...

Fronting this display is Magna Carta, represented by an eighteenth-century engraved facsimile of the 1215 document preserved ...