The illiberal view of progress has a terrible record. Maximilien Robespierre, architect of the Terror, invoked Rousseau; ...

Playwright Jeffrey Hatcher has crafted a new version of Patrick Hamilton’s 1929 thriller “Rope,” which is making its world premiere at Hartford Stage from Oct. 10 through Nov. 2.

Baudrillard thought The Matrix made "an embarrassing error" in its caricatured contrast between the simulated and the real, ...

It is as bitter a piece of social irony as the unhappy marriage in Edith Wharton’s “A Custom of the Country.” I do not know why it should be so, but afsensitive man sacrificed at the altar is always a ...

Which famous philosopher wrote, ‘I have experienced so much, happy and sad, enlivening and dispiriting, but God has led me safely through it all as does a father his weak little child’? The words are ...

A new biography of Peter Matthiessen chronicles his many paradoxical attempts to escape who the world expected him to be.

Hôtel Belles Rives channels the idealized Riviera of the Lost Generation with genuine care On the pleasant shore of the ...

Here is everything we know about Elon Musk’s 14 children, who he shares with four partners: Justine Wilson, Grimes, Shivon ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Restlessness is deeply rooted in American mythology. We are a country of pilgrims, engaged in a lifelong search for what Ralph Waldo Emerson called an “original ...

In 1950, James Baldwin and his lover, the painter Lucien Happersberger, set out from Paris for the mountains of Switzerland, where Baldwin, then around 25, hoped to climb his way out of a creative ...

Another day, another win for Nietzsche’s theory of eternal return (something Ben Affleck definitely would corner you at a party to talk about). Jennifer Lopez and Affleck were reunited Monday night on ...

The United States executed Operation Midnight Hammer on June 22, 2025, employing roughly 125 aircraft, including seven B-2s, against Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan-sites long assessed as the backbone of ...