It is with no small feeling of regret that we observe how completely the civic traditions of our early Republic…
Some of the finest works of architectural criticism in recent memory have been written in response to the existential cultural…
In Mao Zedong’s 1957 speech “On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People,” delivered at the Zhongnanhai’s Huairen Hall…
In the elder days of Art, Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part; For the Gods see…
High treason, a crime so often alleged in our public discourse and so seldom proven in an actual court of…
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At the height of China’s Cultural Revolution, the future novelist Han Shaogong found himself exiled to a small village in…
On January 18, 1927, the Frankfurter Zeitung daily newspaper featured one of the celebrated feuilletons Joseph Roth had lately been…
“Even divine nature needs its diminuendos and morendos, in order to come to life again and rise up, heading for…
It was in the early months of 2019 that the English conservative commentator Peter Hitchens found himself waging a one-man…
