This case is the latest sign that we are approaching the end of the “rights” revolution that began six decades ago. The ...

We will bury you!” It prompted twelve nato ambassadors to walk out. As it turned out, thirty-four years later it was European ...

Jay Nordlinger on a podcast with music from hither and yon.

Thomas Mann and the Making of ‘The Magic Mountain,‘” by Morten Høi Jensen.

On Heirs & Graces: A History of the Modern British Aristocracy, by Eleanor Doughty. The House of Lords would then comprise about 740 life peers, created by recent prime ministers. Life peerages were ...

David Platzer on “The Empire of Sleep,” at the Musée Marmottan-Monet, Paris.

Songs of the heart, etc. This episode is about songs of the heart. There is one from Russia, performed two diffe ...

“Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises,” Caliban tells Stephano and Trinculo in The Tempest. As Britain’s public morals and political conduct regress to their sleazy Georgian mean, the ordinary ...

T hi s year marks the thirty-fifth anniversary of the death of the English novelist, poet, and travel writer Lawrence Durrell. Born in 1912 in Jullundur, British India, Durrell produced an abundant ...