George Loomis on a performance of Beethoven’s “Fidelio” by the Cleveland Orchestra.
What makes Wajda unique is that he did what so many Western filmmakers would not: he mocked, satirized, and criticized ...
Earlier this month, The Guardian issued a correction to an article about the Gold Medal of Philology, bestowed every five years by the International Society of Philology (ISP). Having initially ...
But it would be as “compleatly” off the mark to explain ham radio by its vestigial utility as it would have been for Izaak ...
The Eurasian steppe is famous for being the wellspring and thoroughfare of conquerors. It was from there that the Huns emerged to ravage the moribund Roman Empire. Centuries later, the Mongols under ...
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On the most unfairly neglected framer. Who is the most unfairly neglected American Founding Father? You might think that none can be unfairly neglected, so many books about that distinguished coterie ...
The most obvious feature of Theodore Roosevelt’s life and thought is the one least celebrated today, his manliness. Somehow America in the twentieth century went from the explosion of assertive ...
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