The marketplace likely will move much faster than the court system, particularly in as dynamic an industry as technology.

The representational theory of capital offers a more nuanced understanding of what capital is, and what role it plays in economic life.

To write about music, commentators must say something about what a piece seems to be evoking and how it does so.

Marc Stears' new book examines how a cluster of writers and thinkers altered the language of English culture and prized the everyday.

Hofstadter was too much a partisan to notice his own blinders, and too little a philosopher to see the permanent things.

Ars Vitae seeks to break out of our modern, therapeutic prison, where the life of man is solitary, poor, dreary, pampered, and much too long.

In an age of demagoguery, judges and justices—members of a highly credentialed elite dealing with complex questions—are perfect targets.

Rome and Caesar are unknown to modern elites who refuse to believe in the existence of great men.

That Herman Melville became a writer in the first place—and later the author of the Great American Novel, as some people think of Moby-Dick—would have surprised his father, Allan, who said (when Melville was seven) that he was “very backward in speech & somewhat slow in comprehension.” His older brother, Gansevoort, was the one destined […]

The progressive push for groups to be engaged in political activism makes them little more than proxies for their members’ political associations.