Suzanna Murawski on Giotto’s frescoes, the university’s origins & an embattled Klimt.

For example, the latest Michelin Guide considers the best two restaurants in Washington, D.C., to be minibar and Jônt, whereas the magazine Washingtonian chooses Albi and Dо̄gon. And while U.S. News & ...

To say that Keith Windschuttle was one of the most controversial figures in Australian intellectual life would be a gross understatement. Across a range of issues, he created a great deal of trouble ...

Patrick Bishop’s new Paris 1944 is by far the best-written study in English of the controversial topic of France under German rule. A journalist and popular historian, Bishop brings alive for the ...

As the chief speechwriter for nearly the entirety of Ronald Reagan’s two terms, Anthony R. “Tony” Dolan will probably be remembered most for his work during the 1980s. Many of the obituaries after his ...

Volatility today leads us to look at the foundations of the international world that is now being transformed. The key decade was the 1940s, the period of the establishment of American superpower ...

On Dickens the Enchanter, by Peter Conrad.

Employed in my youth at John Wanamaker’s department store, an institution in Philadelphia until it disappeared, I was sometimes cheered by encountering employees who told me of their fascinations with ...

On The Technological Republic, by Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska.

On Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers, by Jean Strouse.

On Raymond Aron’s Critique de Sartre.

Many American poets still take their tensions from Robert Lowell and Sylvia Plath, whose confessional poetry (a term coined by the critic M. L. Rosenthal) has been the de facto manner for the past two ...