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, ...

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.

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 ...

The result was a normal kid, with literate parents imparting an interest in books and writing. He was very much anchored and ...

Sublime Poetry,” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Whatever is good according to reason,” answered the Greek. This was explosive. By the nature of Mamoun’s position—caliph of ...

Locke made two revolutions, both successful: the Glorious Revolution of 1688 in England and the American Revolution in 1776.

James Bowman on the media’s stubbornness.