But it would be as “compleatly” off the mark to explain ham radio by its vestigial utility as it would have been for Izaak ...

The Eurasian steppe is famous for being the wellspring and thoroughfare of conquerors. It was from there that the Huns ...

This is nothing new: for years writers at leading publications such as The Wall Street Journal and The Economist have ...

Earlier this month, The Guardian issued a correction to an article about the Gold Medal of Philology, bestowed every five years by the International Society of Philology (ISP). Having initially ...

On Sparta, the American Revolution, stone, Carol Bove & more from the world of culture.

This year marks the centennial of the birth of Andrzej Wajda, who has been called cinema’s great historian of Poland. Born on March 6, 1926, the director received almost every award imaginable, ...

Her 1937 short story “The Debutante,” later published by Breton for his anthology of black humor, tells of a debutante who ...

Diego opera at the Met.

Watch the 2026 Edmund Burke Award recipient, Harvey Mansfield, give remarks on “What use is political philosophy?” at The New Criterion ’s annual gala. Read her remarks in the June issue. To view this ...

Charles Willson Peale, George Washington at Princeton (detail), 1779, Oil on canvas, The Middleton Family Collection. “A Nation of Artists,” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (through July 5, 2027): ...