The recent price of $104.2 million for Picasso's "Boy with a Pipe" dramatizes the chasm that separates the art market from the contribution that great art can make to human life.

The technology exists to create high-quality reproductions of artworks, but thus far it has not been widely utilized.

The best European tourist sights are those where you can see the present layered upon the past.

The most imaginative historian would have been hard-pressed to anticipate Bill Clinton's transformation into a cheapened replay of Lyndon Johnson during the Vietnam War.

Charles Murray's Bradley Lecture on Human Accomplishment.

The compromised version of art and history cultivated in our universities and practiced in our museums shortchanges the present by misrepresenting the past.

For Russia and its people, the nightmare of Soviet totalitarianism has come to an end, only to be followed by a phenomenon much more familiar in Russian history: a "time of troubles."