Antonin Dvorák's time in America produced some of his most enduring music, yet he failed at the purpose for which he had come.
The face was once thought to be a mirror of the soul--an idea widely explored in literature. But modern perceptions seem to differ.
America's vital ally in the Middle East is gripped by myriad societal tensions.
Did Henry Kissinger engineer the coup d'état that toppled Salvador Allende?
The 1960s are remembered as a time of upheaval in America. But those subversive "Sixties" aren't the whole story.
Marshall McLuhan (1911–80) was an unlikely prophet of the information age. One of those who first saw the truth in the vatic pronouncements of this obscure academic was a talented young journalist named Tom Wolfe, who helped champion McLuhan’s ideas in the 1960s. Here, Wolfe reflects on the unexpected sources and continuing impact of McLuhan’s vision.
According to opinion polls, Congress is one of the least esteemed institutions in American life. While that should come as a shock, today it’s taken for granted. What can’t be taken for granted is the health of representative democracy amid this corrosive—and often unwarranted—distrust of its central institution.
Democratizing the Middle East may bring a different set of problems to a troubled region.
The uncertain legacy of the Nobel Prize-winning Austrian economist, F. A. Hayek.
A new book attempts to create some rules for sound urban design.