The future is on the way.  Leading-edge innovators, we are assured, have already moved on, and are earnestly focusing on the just the sort of problems - manufacturing, energy, transportation (and I'd add healthcare) - that urgently require imaginative solutions.

Wrestling with the awesomeness and beauty of Richard Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung.

Written fifty years ago, Vasily Grossman's "Life and Fate" has more to say about human freedom than any other novel of the century.

Patrick Allitt's inclusive history is a solid and worthy contribution to the growing literature about conservatism, but it will still leave many observers scratching their heads.

The delusion that one can settle our little disagreements with the Islamic Republic, if only the right people sit around the right conference table, has seized every administration since Carter.

If Ariel Sharon goes ahead with Gaza disengagement, generations both inside and outside Israel will be sacrificed upon the altar of his legacy.

What virtues exist in liberal historian Gordon Wood's books?

A new book explains what the English Revolution of 1688 meant.