How the thought of Philip Rieff illuminates a modern epic.
Edmund Burke, Samuel Johnson, and Adam Smith illuminate one another’s genius.
Robert Kaplan calls U.S. foreign policy provincial, narrow, shallow, and naïve.
His Cold War classic Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy turns fifty this month.
A less examined side of the Civil War takes the stage in Tom Klingenstein’s latest play.
Irving Kristol was a renegade liberal in 1978—and wrong about markets.
The only moral way to judge a person’s worth is by his character.
The separate ways of John Randolph and Henry Thoreau.
The father of the Enlightenment faces a new critique in his tercentenary.
Cabrini and Young Woman and the Sea show what women are truly capable of.
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