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The battle between the power of government and individual liberty has been the enduring struggle throughout American history. When Thomas Jefferson penned the Declaration of Independence in 1776, he h ...

Excerpted from The Mighty Continent: A Candid History of Modern Europe (Creed & Culture), published on January 20, 2026. For three reasons, over the years 1890 to 1914 the great powers of Europe g ...

I find failure fascinating. My first scholarly articles explored well-meaning Army General William Westmoreland's Vietnam War disaster. I never thought I'd see that happen again. Then came ...

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 ...

Connecticut's leaders are considering a risky play: using taxpayer and pension funds to keep the WNBA's Connecticut Sun in-state. It may sound like an investment in community pride, b ...

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 ...

Alice sat in the darkness of the cabin, waiting for the door to open. On the island she had not been waiting for anything. She'd walked where she pleased, over sandy shore and through the forest ...

Combating our current scourge of loneliness and social isolation must be seen as a societal imperative. Platitudes about togetherness won't do; we need action items. A new survey ...

Michael Clune's debut novel Pan shares little beside its title and first-person perspective with the nineteenth-century Norwegian novella by Knut Hamsun about the erotic yearnings and pantheisti ...

There is a lot to criticize about the widely mocked Blue Square Alliance Super Bowl ad. In it, two bullies knock into David, a Jewish boy, and attach to his backpack a yellow sticky note with the word ...