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.
Songs of the heart, etc. This episode is about songs of the heart. There is one from Russia, performed two diffe ...
David Platzer on “The Empire of Sleep,” at the Musée Marmottan-Monet, Paris.
On Larry: A New Biography of Lawrence Durrell, 1912–1945, by Michael Haag.
On Plato and the Tyrant, by James Romm. Plato and the Tyrantis in fact the story of how Plato attempted to instruct not one but three Syracusan tyrants: Dionysius the Elder, who died in 367; his heir, ...
On Heirs & Graces: A History of the Modern British Aristocracy, by Eleanor Doughty.
A new poem by Alissa Valles.Runs, foreshortened paws clutched to its chest, “as if carrying something,” “always with urgent manner,” its silky pelage ashen with rufous patches and markings mimicking a ...
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