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Ideas, Arts, and Culture
December 1, 2023 5:32 am
The Lessons of the WASPs
Is it possible to reinvigorate the virtues that characterized the old American elite at its best, while leaving their vices…
December 1, 2023 5:32 am
A Great Historian’s Inner History
Peter Brown’s remarkable memoir attests to the extraordinary powers of imagination he used to reconceive the study of late antiquity.
December 1, 2023 5:32 am
Here’s Why You Should Care About Napoleon More Than You Do
We’re still living in the world that emerged from his paradoxes.
November 30, 2023 5:32 am
‘Saltburn’ Review
Class and coveting in ‘Saltburn,’ starring Barry Keoghan.
November 29, 2023 5:32 am
‘Napoleon’ Review
You expect epic and get epic. You don’t quite expect the comedy.
November 23, 2023 5:20 am
‘The Highest Appreciation Is Not to Utter Words But to Live by Them’
“Let us be humbly thankful for inherited ideals” and resolve to share “those ideals with our fellow human beings throughout…
November 22, 2023 5:32 am
When Historians Complain About Movies
There are lessons in all the griping and sniping over Ridley Scott’s ‘Napoleon.’
November 22, 2023 5:32 am
Indians and the American Story
Ned Blackhawk’s award-winning history of suffering and survival.
November 22, 2023 5:32 am
Why Jacqueline Kennedy Dreaded Going to Dallas
Remembering the first lady on the sixtieth anniversary of a day of national and personal tragedy.
November 21, 2023 5:32 am
The Day My Father Scared America
Forty years after ‘The Day After,’ can we have cohesive national moments anymore?
