Republicans are once again contemplating a defeat on the budget followed by recriminations. This season the defeat will concern Planned Parenthood: Some Republicans think that they should take a stand ...

Despotism is as old as the political condition of man and is the antithesis of free and decent human life. In the 20th century it took an impressive variety of ...

Primo Levi was a prophet who resisted the moral nihilism that is the particular mark of the 20th century. Deported in 1944 to Auschwitz, to which he always referred as ...

Michael Walsh’s latest book is nothing if not ambitious. According to the jacket summary, it “exposes the overlooked movement that is Critical Theory” and “explains how it . . . ...

It’s entirely possible that the legal battle over same-sex marriage was lost for lack of Ryan Andersons. There simply weren’t enough people like him — people capable of making a ...

Aside from Edgar Allan Poe (who, after all, pretty much invented the detective story), the most significant figure in the history of American mystery fiction is Dashiell Hammett, who brought ...

We Can Handle the Truth Thanks to David Pryce-Jones for his article “The Truth-Teller” (September 7) about Robert Conquest, who exposed the atrocities of the Soviet Communists in the 20th century. While ...

‐ The British Parliament voted against assisted suicide — except in the case of the Labour party. ‐ Joe Biden mulls his presidential options; on the same swing through New York ...

HOW WORDS USE US Words are the only way we have to tell Of far horizons hurtling into space, Or how a swaying limb invokes a spell On stars, to jostle them back into ...