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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

Sunday afternoon was colorful at the Metropolitan Opera—both onstage and in the audience. Onstage was El último sueño de Frida y Diego, i.e., “The Last Dream of Frida and Diego.” This opera is by ...

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): ...