Last century, many people still associated the Left with fun controlled chaos and the Right with boring, strict, and violent…

Venice is an artificial miracle, a metropolis of gold and marble and crumbling brick and peeling stucco improbably set afloat…

Billy Wilder on Assignment: Dispatches from Weimar Berlin and Interwar Vienna Edited by Noah Isenberg; translated by Shelley Frisch (Princeton…

I heard the news last Wednesday morning. My wife and I were doing our annual Christmas trip to Pittsburgh’s historic…

World War II ended almost 80 years ago. Much of Europe was in ruins. Germany and the Soviet Union probably…

“You can make the earth a magnificent garden — or you can make it a desert of death.” -The pope,…

The European elite’s sour reaction to the rise of Giorgia Meloni, Italy’s next prime minister, reveals less about her politics…

In the wake of the French Revolution and the disastrous Napoleonic wars, Europe’s conservative regimes — Austria under Francis I,…

The headlines reporting Giorgia Meloni likely becoming the Italian prime minister after her Brothers of Italy party won the largest…

Perhaps the biggest lie told in the last 100 years on this planet is the one about fascism. Specifically, that…