On a recent concert of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Dima Slobodeniouk.

The works shown in New York City Ballet’s annual Fall Fashion Gala typically, and perhaps unsurprisingly, elevate style (of ...

Suzanna Murawski on Rousseau, Rothko & American literature.

Will there always be an England? Keir Starmer’s Labour Party has put the answer to that question very much in doubt. The prime minister’s strategy seems to be to look around for dystopian novels and ...

A Christmas selection: songs old and newer, performed by Leontyne Price, Luciano Pavarotti, Heidi Grant Murphy, Odetta, Mel Tormé, et glorious al.

Paul du Quenoy on a new production of “Simon Boccanegra” at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma.

“Depend upon it, sir,” said Dr. Johnson, “when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.” I suppose that in logic his mind ought to continue to concentrate ...

Patrick Kurp on Andrew Rickard’s Obolus Press.

What’s so bad about having a mentally deficient ruler? Surely the ruler’s advisors can make wise decisions and tell him what to say? When I hear such reasoning, I think of Tsar Nicholas II, his sad ...