
Gilbert T. Sewall
Millions of horrified television viewers yesterday watched terrified students running from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, sick with…
Friends of the University of Chicago often profess its humanities and social sciences have largely escaped postmodern infection. But no institution is…
Late last year, the California board of education brought to an end a decades-long campaign to emphasize lesbian, gay, bisexual,…
I know several clever people who think Garrison Keillor is funny. Many fell in love with his “A Prairie Home…
Germany is in an unexpected political stalemate. This month, coalition talks among quarreling parties collapsed, leaving who will govern the…
The race hoax at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs has unraveled. The hoaxer, a black football player and…
In 1958, twenty-two years after he wrote Brave New World, the Englishman-moved-to-Los Angeles Aldous Huxley revisited his book and the…
The nation is less socially hopeful and generous than in years leading up to Barack Obama’s presidency. In 2008, voters…
French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel opened the global Frankfurt Book Fair last week, preaching European unity and…
President Donald J. Trump, for all his defects, speaks to white Americans, badgered ceaselessly, told to renounce their heritage and…