George Loomis on “Un ballo in maschera,” at the Paris Opera.

Populism in the United States and Europe strikes many as an affront to decency and good government, but what prompted it? If a few populists such as New York’s Zohran Mamdani have emerged from the ...

The Rise and Fall of Athens’s Naval Mastermind,” by Michael Scott.

Music has long depended on its benefactors, including commissioners. Think of the three string quartets that make up Beethoven’s Op. 59. They’re known as the “Razumovsky Quartets,” because Count ...

On political philosophy, Egon Schiele, Gainsborough, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Hogarth & more from the world of culture.

Warren Frye on “The Saga of the Earls of Orkney,” edited and translated by Judith Jesch.

Mahler’s Third began with a blatty onset in the horns—but, as they continued, those horns were arresting. Part I as a whole ...

Editors’ note: The following is an edited version of remarks delivered in acceptance of the Beaconsfield Prize at the National Conservatism Conference in Washington, D.C., on September 3, 2025. The ...

On the state of “the literary life” a quarter-century after Joseph Epstein wrote on this subject for our inaugural issue.