An aftershock yesterday struck Mandalay, Myanmar’s second-largest city, near the epicenter of the initial quake, toppling ...

For decades, Alexander Dugin argued that Russia had a messianic mission, and that destroying an independent Ukraine was necessary to fulfilling it.

Throughout Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, repeated and escalating warnings of the potential for a wider war have ...

Few people, however, know the history of the phrase “pride and prejudice,” which I explore in my new book, “Jane Austen ... did not end with Emancipation or the end of the U.S. Civil War. In fact, it ...

Free-speech battles and pressure from Washington threaten America’s oldest university—and the soul of higher education.

It was a tiny change in the script, but the addition of the single question changed the whole tone of the debate by provoking ...

In the latest in a series looking at Shakespeare’s references to birds, Steve Sutherland has the lark in his sights.

This throws light on the subject of Blanning’s new book, Augustus (1670–1733), who became Elector of Saxony in 1694 and was elected King of Poland in 1697, forced to abdicate in 1706, and then ...

Let’s get this one out the way first: there is absolutely no historical evidence that the Order of Assassins was ever at war ...

We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: ...

Among the written works which came out of the Protestant Reformation, probably the most surprising is the widely popular work The Pilgrim’s Progress, a work of fiction from an untrained preacher ...