At the end of World War I, Winston Churchill watched Europe rise from beneath the floodwaters, its borders redrawn, its monarchies toppled. One soggy patch of soil,…
ARKANSAS — Clay Newcomb is on a personal mission to explore things forgotten in a digital world that moves past people and experiences at the speed of…
The end of the Cold War, and the period of reflection in its wake, settled the argument between liberty and tyranny decisively in favor of the former.…
Except for Charles Dickens and Jane Austen, no 19th-century British writer is as familiar to people who aren’t literary specialists as Oscar Wilde. Oscar: A Life, by…
When I was about 13 years old, I went to an art movie theater to see the film Let It Be, a documentary by and about the…
With the Atlanta Braves’ recent World Series victory, calls have returned to change the team’s name and end fans’ use of the tomahawk chop, the chopping motion…
Hours after the failed Nov. 7 assassination attempt on Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al Kadhimi, pro-Iran militias in Iraq claimed responsibility but denied that Tehran had ordered…
When Sesame Street premiered in November 1969, Kermit the Frog tried to teach young viewers about the letter W. But then, Cookie Monster interrupted and ate a…
There’s an old controversy over the word “momentarily” or, more precisely, over one of its most familiar usages. The word really means “for a moment,” but on…
It was going to be “the most significant honor” of his life. Comedian Dave Chappelle has won multiple Grammys and Emmys and was even awarded the Mark…
