It’s now 250 years since America declared her independence and embarked on the experiment of fashioning a nation dedicated to ...

There have been ­many books written about the online right and the Trump movement, most by people who are, to put it mildly, ...

Who is our Odysseus? Or more precisely, who is the most ­Odyssean hero of American film? Matt Damon’s mopey trauma patient?

How would you write a public letter that you know will become front-page news? Would you write it yourself, or would you have a team of lawyers or a public relations firm write it for you? Or would ...

We wish that we could pass this play over, and say nothing about it. All that we can say must fall far short of the subject; or even of what we ourselves conceive of it.” So William Hazlitt, in ...

The mother of a fallen Ukrainian soldier cries into the crucified Christ depicted on her son’s burial shroud. It echoes the icons here at St. Mikhail Church, a short walk from central Kyiv. As the ...

Most Americans seem to think of the major Protestant denominations as if they were founded with the names we now use. In truth, the names were often forced by circumstance and argument. The methodical ...

In his Apologia ad Carolum Quintum, English cardinal Reginald Pole claimed that Thomas Cromwell told him in 1529 that Machiavelli’s The Prince had inspired King Henry VIII to break with Rome. The ...

Ten years ago, an editor at Penguin approached me to ask if I would like to edit a collection of essays by Wendell Berry for a British audience. Berry’s essays had never been published in book form in ...

Leslie Poles Hartley famously dubbed the past “a foreign country.” This summer, for the first time, I sensed that the present can be one too. My annual visit to the land of my childhood and youth ...

Around the time nineteen-year-old Alice began cutting ties with her family, she announced on social media that she was bisexual and grateful for her “found family.” The phrase was new to her parents, ...

When Anna, a pianist at her local church, began to show the unmistakable signs of pregnancy, her elders assumed it was unplanned and prepared to offer her counseling and support. They were shocked by ...