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None dare say “battle of the bands.” Apologies: I just did. Three weeks ago, the New York Philharmonic, under Gustavo Dudamel, played Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 in David Geffen Hall. Last night, the ...

Jane Coombs on New York City Ballet’s annual Fall Fashion Gala.

On Georgia O’Keeffe, ancient magic, John Russell Pope, unrequited love & more from the world of culture.

Every culture has a literature that is to some extent subterranean. Much of it deserves to stay there. But certain pieces occasionally bubble to the surface. Invariably this happens because the work ...

War. If the modern age is a revenge on those naive commentators who thought war could be banished by law, humanitarianism, or technology controlled by a superpower, then its frequency and apparently ...

It was improbable, to say the least, that the David Gruen born as a Jew in 1886 in the back-of-beyond Polish-Russian township of Plonsk should have become David Ben-Gurion, a world-historical figure.

Christopher Hitchens loved life, his great friend Martin Amis once observed. And Amis himself? “I like life.” It was a typical Amis line: expertly grasping a cliché and turning its pockets inside out.

The Great Americal Rascal” Dorothea Israel Wolfson, Claremont Review of Books. In an essay for the Claremont Review of Books ...

It is remarkable that, despite its long record of failure, socialism is now more popular than ever among college students and in progressive precincts of the Democratic Party, at least judging by the ...