The Young Cicero Reading. Vincenzo Foppa. Fresco, 1464.  A selection from David McCullough's John Adams : "You are now at a uni...

This might seem a softball post, because it's pretty easy to find confusion, and despair, in the thought of Kanye West lecturing at Oxf...

He was Lieutenant Bromhead at Rorke's Drift in Zulu  and he was Canfield at the Battle of Britain , he was Alfie and Jack Carter  and ...

Directed by Peter Weir. 2003. Rarely can a movie exist in two worlds and succeed in either, let alone both, but in Master and Commander:...

Directed by David Lean. 1957. "There is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, when two strong men stand face to fac...