Christopher Atamian on how Takashi Murakami unites kitsch, mockery, and tradition.

If there were ever any doubt that Hamlet is the greatest of all Shakespeare plays—even perhaps the greatest play ever written—then Dominic Dromgoole's newest book puts any discussion to rest. In 2014, to celebrate the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth, Dromgoole, then artistic director of…

New York

New York

Site of the Yalta Conference, the Crimea is the Miami Beach of the former Soviet Union, a paradise of palm trees, health resorts, and other sybaritic pleasures. You might think this is the reason that Russia recently reconquered the province. But geopolitics and natural resources played a greater…

New York

New York

Conservative intellectuals have rightly come to despair about the academy. But amidst the darkness, there are flashes of light. One is provided by the Yale political science professor Steven B. Smith. He has made his name as an expert on Spinoza, authoring several contrarian takes on the…

Conservative intellectuals have rightly come to despair about the academy. But amidst the darkness, there are flashes of light. One is provided by the Yale political science professor Steven B. Smith. He has made his name as an expert on Spinoza, authoring several contrarian takes on the…