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In 1856, Lieutenant Henry Aaron Bird makes a startling discovery: a speechless, shipwrecked young girl, living a feral existence on a remote Pacific island. When he exhibits her as a "wild girl ...

When in November of 1849 Charlotte Brontë sent the gift of her second novel to the writer Harriet Martineau, she enclosed a note, writing that "Currer Bell offers a copy of Shirley to Miss ...

"I guess my fantasy has always been that things can be reasonable, that life can be arranged in sensible, pleasant ways. But it can't; I always underestimate the destructive element in human ...

You know you are winning when powerful people become hypocrites to claim they agree with you. That's how free speech advocates should view Princeton President Christopher Eisgruber's Terms ...

Marlon Brando was a great man: a genius, a visionary, a generational talent, and perhaps the best actor to ever live. Few would disagree, claiming it self-evident. But the latest biopic on Brando&rsqu ...

Author and historian David McCullough left a massive void behind in his absence when he died in 2022. Fortunately, many close to him agreed that his wisdom and insights were still needed today. In Sep ...

On a sunny day in Alexandria's historic Parker-Gray neighborhood, I knock on the door of a large brick house painted yellow with green trim. "You're right on time," says R. Emm ...

This week marks the seventh anniversary of the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi. This anniversary should also mark the day a United States Senator betrayed his oath to the Constitu ...

In the final, absorbing volume of his Three Paintings Trilogy, philosopher and critic Morgan Meis explores the art of Joan Mitchell and in particular one of her crowning achievements, the Grand V ...

I was two years into college when I picked up the book "Real Education" by the much-maligned conservative Charles Murray. Even after the roughly 17 years since its publication, I fo ...