For Saturday, January 23 through Sunday, January 31. 1) In the WSJ , Andrew Manshel asks: Are symphonies to big to succeed? 2) Joseph Fo...

Our need for beauty is not, I believe,a redundant addition to the list of human interests. It is not something that we could lack and still ...

Overture to Idomeneo Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. (KV.366) Idomeneo was commissioned in 1780 by Karl Theodor, Elector of Bavaria, and premier...

Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart was born today, the 27th of January, in the year 1756. Posthumous painting by Barbara ...

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

I. Peter Robinson of the Hoover Institution's Uncommon Knowledge interviews Ron Chernow, author of Alexander Hamilton (2004.) 2008....

For the week of Saturday, January 16 through Friday, January 22. 1) In Forbes , Trevor Butterworth on What We Can Learn From Cicero . ....

Directed by Stanley Kubrick. 1975. "How did they make a movie of Lolita?" Kubrick might have adapted Lolita 's tagline f...

Lecture from the Mises Institute Presented by Thomas E. Woods, Jr. at "Depression, Monetary Destruction, and the Path to Sound Money...

Directed by Randall Miller. 2008. In the absence of flashiness and spectacle and without technical polish and narrative novelty Bottle S...