Evidently, that is what “free speech” means to him. It is the freedom to choose his own reality and to have it ratified as ...

Van Gogh once wrote that it was Millet rather than Manet who most expressed the essential nature of modern painting. Millet’s ...

Gary Saul Morson on the Soviet politicization of science.

Paul du Quenoy on Wagner’s ‘Lohengrin,’ at the Bayreuth Festival ...

A Salzburg audience is a very disciplined one. In the middle of a Strauss set was “Cäcilie.” How you can refrain from ...

Currently, Muslims account for about 6.5 percent of Britain’s population. That may seem like a small number. But there are ...

Simon Heffer on a pair of new books about London’s clubs.

He was born in Moscow in 1932; he died in Munich, his adopted home. His wife, who preceded him in death, was Maya Plisetskaya ...

As Liza Libes, a veteran of Literature Humanities, recently wrote, more in sorrow than in anger, “Ovid was sent on a ...

James Bowman on free speech & hate speech.

Paul du Quenoy on a new production of Wagner’s "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg," at the Bayreuth Festival.

One is grimly amused to read that “the writings of Burke are the daily bread of statesmen, speakers, and political writers.” ...