Paul du Quenoy on the season-opening new production of Lohengrin at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma.

William Walton composed his “What Cheer?” in 1961. But that carol hearkens back to an earlier form, and its words date to, ...

“Chronological order is not the only order,” says Jay in this episode, but “it’s not a bad” one. The episode starts in the sixteenth century—“Gaudete, Christus est natus.” It stays there for a while ...

The scale of the Marron Family Atrium allows us to foreground the ambition that defined Frankenthaler’s work,” says Samantha Friedman, a curator in moma’s Department of Drawings and Prints, who ...

On “Mies van der Rohe: An Architect in His Time,” by Dietrich Neumann.

But Lear is not bluffing. He intends to retire from kingship and divide his kingdom, and he does retire from kingship and ...

On April 1917: The Red Wheel, Node IV, Book 1, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by Clare Kitson. Once again, “the historical novel turns into dramatized history,” based on a faithful “depiction ...

Gentz called the American Revolution “defensive” and the French one “offensive.” Maistre traced the latter’s most offensive ...

Indeed, the spirited “army” that began the war at Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill in 1775 bore little resemblance to the ...

T he Declaration of Independence was the banner under which the American Revolution was fought. “We hold these truths to be ...

Wilfred M. McClay holds the Victor Davis Hanson Chair in Classical History and Western Civilization at Hillsdale College, ...

W e now have it on the authority of a licensed psychotherapist that “Trump Derangement Syndrome” (tds) is clinically real—though it’s probably not destined to have its own ...