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It's 1973 and Mona Glass is a 24-year-old amateur tennis star in a long-running affair with Saul Plotz, her former college professor. Her parents like Saul and desperately want the free-spirited Mona ...

Soren Kierkegaard once remarked that we can never be reminded too often that a man existed named Socrates. Agnes Callard's Open Socrates thus comes as a particularly timely reminder. Callard is ...

Overall, American Primeval, the new Western on Netflix which takes place in the early days of Utah's settlement, is a good show--in a directional sense. That is, it is enjoyable because it ...

In a letter to Henry Lee penned a little more than a year before his death, Thomas Jefferson famously described the Declaration of Independence as "an expression of the American mind." Wit ...

One of the most beautiful paintings in the Caspar David Friedrich show The Soul of Nature, on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through May 11, shows a roiling ocean crashing against a rocky coas ...

Inspired by the anger she felt at the passing of her working-class grandfather, Disposable (America's Contempt for the Underclass) by New York Magazine writer Sarah Jones, offers capsule summari ...

Freedom, here, abides in this cell before me,bound to a crude, stone throne of eternityto reconcile Creator with creationand prevail against the proud, spiteful nations. Terrified, here, I quake in Hi ...

Over the years, I've talked to a lot of people who got hit by Bert Cooper. Inventive standards had to be devised to measure what had happened to them, because being hit by Bert Cooper didn&rsquo ...

The sharpest and best insight at the core of New York Times columnist Ross Douthat's recent book, Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious, is that religious disaffiliation is effectively the n ...

WWE has mastered a nifty magic trick. The company simultaneously announces record revenues while its flagship event, WrestleMania 41, struggles to sell tickets for the upcoming Easter weekend. This is ...