One day this fall, my phone rang too early in the morning for it to be anything but bad news. Stephen Appleby, one of my English cousins, was calling. His mother, my aunt Audrey, had died hours ...

Editor WILLIAM ZUKERMAN, in the biweekly review, JEWISH NEWSLETTER: THERE cannot be the slightest doubt that a state of mind very much like that of Israel now prevails among American Jews. There is a ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Tokyo — A few days before Air Force One landed in Tokyo on Monday, an advance team of Angelenos had flown in on an ...

The founding of the Delian League in 478 BC moved the Athenians closer to the idea of democracy. However, although the Athenians believed that all men were created equal in political power and the ...

Mr. Jefferson, I notice that you used the word “equal” — as in, “All men are created equal” — in your so-called Declaration of Independence. Can you explain to the Utah Senate Education Confirmation ...

On a Saturday evening in 1838, a young Illinois state legislator ascended the pulpit of his hometown Baptist church to deliver a lecture before the Springfield Young Men’s Lyceum. Abraham Lincoln’s ...

Any time you set out to write a play, there is the foundational concept of the Point of Attack; the precise moment at which you begin to tell your story. The choice is crucial enough as it is, but ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Paul Finebaum took a moment during the first hour of his Monday show to delivered a funeral oration for what was once considered one of the sport’s most dominant programs, ...

As echelons of MIGs thundered overhead and cannon boomed out a 21-gun salute, North Viet Nam’s Premier Pham Van Dong burst into tears. So did Nguyen Huu Tho, leader of the Viet Cong, as well as many ...

WITH HARD-RIGHT populist parties surging in Europe and the Republican Party lurching rightwards in America, liberalism is on the back foot. It may seem an exhausted ideology with little to offer, but ...