May 15, 2017

The standoff over North Korea’s nuclear weapons heads into uncharted territory.

Progressives claim to love science, but what they truly love is power.

Three ideas to meet the needs of new Republican voters.

The dismantling of Turkish democracy continues.

Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson unites in a time of division.

So says Jeff Sessions, but some big-city chiefs disagree.

How to be entitled and boring without really trying.

How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class -- and What We Can Do about It

A Secret History of American Prosperity

Set in the summer and early autumn of 1949, "Deconstruction" reimagines the relationship between Paul de Man, newly arrived in New York City from Belgium, and novelist-critic Mary McCarthy.

Jay Nordlinger in discussion with George Walker, American composer.

Without a link to the present, "The Lost City of Z"'s story starts strong and then fades out, its power evanescing with its subject.

Rock’s Other Pioneer I have only one quarrel with Andrew Cline’s “Founding Rocker” (April 17). There is another iconic rocker who should also be considered — Little Richard, circa 1955, with ...

‐ In Trump’s first 100 days, “Tough on China” became “Tough on Canada.” Now that’s tough. ‐Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign, by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes, is gripping reading, ...

LARKINESQUE The trees have shed their leaves at last, Like something over — done and said. How shall their settled piles be read Now that fall is dead and past? Perhaps like sibyl’s words that ...