The case of Bowdoin College
A new report paints a devastating portrait of the current state of college education.
Starving in China
by Arthur Waldron
The great famine before China's Cultural Revolution killed millions. Yang Jisheng took it upon himself to make sure the world knew about it.
A Burke for our time
by Charles Hill
He was an eighteenth-century Irish statesman, but Edmund Burke still has plenty to say today.
Getting right with Niebuhr
by James Nuechterlein
Reinhold Niebuhr was a public intellectual and a theologian who still has a deep influence on both the right and the left.
Good company
by Paul Dean
Shakespeare's actors brought his plays to life, but what kind of relationship did he have with them?
Eleanor Clark's Rome
by Emily Esfahani Smith
Rome was a magical place for Eleanor Clark, who shares her connection with the city in Rome and a Villa.
Fifty million fables
by Stefan Beck
Reviews of Manuscript Found in Accra by Paulo Coelho, Fight Song by Joshua Mohr, The Fun Parts by Sam Lipsyte, and The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud.
Le Sacre turns 100
by Laura Jacobs
A look back on Le Sacre du printemps on the centenary of Stravinsky's famous ballet.
Manhattan Projects
by Kevin D. Williamson
Coverage of Macbeth, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and Hands on a Hardbody.
Impressionism à la mode
by Karen Wilkin
On “Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Exhibition note
by Christie Davies
On "Man Ray: Portraits” at the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Exhibition note
by Mario Naves
On "The New Spirit: American Art in the Armory Show, 1913” at the Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ.
Gallery chronicle
by James Panero
On “Dana Gordon & John Mendelsohn: New Paintings” at Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, “Jane Freilicher: Painter Among Poets” at Tibor de Nagy Gallery, “Fedele Spadafora: New Paintings” at Slag Gallery, Brooklyn, and “John Dubrow: Recent Work” at Lori Bookstein Fine Art.
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On recent performances, including Stephanie Blythe, Francesca da Rimini, the New York Philharmonic, the Artemis Quartet, Sol Gabetta, the Škampa Quartet, and more.
Speak no evil
by James Bowman
The fallout from Britain's phone-hacking scandal has now led to government regulation of the media and an ominous future for free speech in the West.