When I tell people that I recently moved from South Florida, their eyes are full of visions of mega-mansions and gaudy towers. But this, I think, ...

Writing the biographies of politicians or generals requires no special language; the biographies of writers can, without much more difficulty, ...

Though novelists Gina Ochsner and Paula Huston first met only five years ago, they've developed the kind of friendship that usually takes ...

Marshall McLuhan famously wrote that "the 'content' of any medium is always another medium." The content of print is speech; ...

The opening pages of Homegoing—Ghanaian American Yaa Gyasi's debut novel—start a fire in Ghana that burns, one way or another, ...

At a gathering of the conservative organization, The Philadelphia Society, a few years ago, Bradley Birzer gave a talk about Russell Kirk and ...

Last night I watched Broadway stars perform a ditty about Colonial-era rules for dueling in a mixture of Filipino Tagalog and English. I witnessed ...

The earth is a very big place.

Yes, it may be growing a bit smaller. (Google "shrinking globe" and you'll find dozens of essays ...

In her 1846 poem "The Missionary," Charlotte Brontö offered a perfect summary of the impulses that drove missionaries to spread ...

Jack Miles is the general editor of The Norton Anthology of World Religions (2015). He received the Pulitzer Prize for God: A Biography (1996) ...

In his 2005 feature debut Man Push Cart, Iranian American filmmaker Ramin Bahrani's cinematic signature is already evident: highly watchable ...

My family history reads like headlines: Thousands of Christians displaced from their homeland by an expansionist Islamic state seeking to set ...

Editor's Note: This is the second installment of Michael R. Stevens' annual baseball extravaganza. Part 1, posted on Monday, reviewed ...

This review has been a study in devolution—what was once a Spring Training Report concocted in early March, and what had become something ...

"There is so much separation and segregation … But if we could cross the road once in a while and pay attention to what is happening ...

It's a curious irony that the champions of scientism are some of the most vocal advocates of change and progress yet they so rarely change ...

George Washington is not the first person to come to mind when we're talking about modern-day matters of immigration, but there he is. A ...

Editor's Note: Prince Rogers Nelson died yesterday, April 21, 2016. Here is an elegy for him by Aaron Belz, who lives in Hillsborough, North ...

Consumers of mainstream news can be forgiven for believing that Germany is awash in refugees. The truth is that they are seldom seen on German ...

The lowest point in my first few weeks in South Africa—which I came to see as a sort of laboratory of modern upheaval—was when one ...