Paul du Quenoy on the season-opening new production of Lohengrin at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma.

William Walton composed his “What Cheer?” in 1961. But that carol hearkens back to an earlier form, and its words date to, ...

Paul du Quenoy on the season-opening new production of Shostakovich’s “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk,” at La Scala.

On the U.S. semiquincentennial.

“Chronological order is not the only order,” says Jay in this episode, but “it’s not a bad” one. The episode starts in the sixteenth century—“Gaudete, Christus est natus.” It stays there for a while ...

On Marcus Aurelius, the American spirit, Camus’ notebooks, Joseph Marioni, Brahms & more from the world of culture. The violinists Maxim Vengerov & Vilde Frang, the violist James Ehnes, the cellist ...

When war broke out again in Europe on September 1, 1939, the Depression-era U.S. Army was only some 170,000 soldiers ...

Gentz called the American Revolution “defensive” and the French one “offensive.” Maistre traced the latter’s most offensive ...

The deeper cause of the success, the general wrote, will be the character of the people—the frugality, industry, and thirst ...

But Lear is not bluffing. He intends to retire from kingship and divide his kingdom, and he does retire from kingship and ...

On “Mies van der Rohe: An Architect in His Time,” by Dietrich Neumann.

Spoken or unspoken, all the essays on America’s semiquincentennial that follow in this special symposium conjure with the defining question of our political dispensation. The question was articulated ...