As Liza Libes, a veteran of Literature Humanities, recently wrote, more in sorrow than in anger, “Ovid was sent on a ...

We would invite the senator to ponder the phrase “unalienable rights.” What makes such rights “unalienable” in his view?

A nd new philosophy calls all in doubt . . . ’Tis all in pieces, all coherence gone.” ...

Imagine that you are a young man from a loving home and good family, brought up to be well-mannered, always considerate of ...

A Salzburg audience is a very disciplined one. In the middle of a Strauss set was “Cäcilie.” How you can refrain from ...

Gary Saul Morson on the Soviet politicization of science.

Like Dickinson, Dodd deals only with essentials and has consistently defied conventional expectations. She came of age as an ...

Simon Heffer on a pair of new books about London’s clubs.

Currently, Muslims account for about 6.5 percent of Britain’s population. That may seem like a small number. But there are ...

Throughout this book, Atkinson also manages well the bringing together of a number of strands. In contrast with some past ...

I am a scholar. . . . Few mysteries are impenetrable to the trained mind. I am an historian—my profession largely consists of ...

Adam Kirsch on "Passport to Paris and Los Angeles Poems," by Vernon Duke.