Fifty Years of Dreams” at the Frist Art Museum, Nashville, Tennessee.

One of the two men, standing before the other, had a light complexion, a long, straight nose, and a long beard. This was the forty-three-year-old Abdullah ibn Haroun al Rashid, known by his regnal ...

On September 30, a federal district court judge in Boston upheld Harvard’s use of racial preferences in undergraduate admissions against the challenge that they discriminate against Asian-Americans.

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This season of 250th-anniversary commemorations provides a perfect platform for broadcasting the merits of the American project, especially to youth whose educators may be concerned more with the ...

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Walking to Carnegie Hall, I called a friend—a musician friend—and said, “I’m going to say something we could have said in the 1980s or ’90s: I’m going to hear Renée and Tom. How ’bout that?” I was ...

In Book IV of Homer’s Odyssey, Odysseus’s young son, Telémakhos, visits the court of his father’s erstwhile comrade-in-arms at Troy, Menelaos, the king of Sparta, in an attempt to glean information ...

Vanity Fair, edited by Frank Crowninshield, was published by Condé Nast in the years 1914-1936. According to legend, it was a brilliant and witty magazine—a compendium of the newest and best in ...

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