Сентябрь 2007 -- Каждая культура и ее институты являются живым воплощением определенных фундаментальных идей о человеке и его месте в мире.
July/August 2002 -- Graffiti is metastasizing again throughout New York City. "The guys out here now are destroying us," says Bruce Pienkny
This is a collection of essays and reviews by an American sociologist who for some forty years has been slugging it out in academic journals
Historian David McCullough, who last year published a biography of President John Adams, was asked in an interview why America's Founding...
Ноябрь 2003 г. - В то утро вторника, как и во все другие, я уставился на экран своего компьютера. Белый прямоугольник Microsoft Word уставился назад.
November 2003 -- This is how the story was told: In 1761, a young French Protestant of Toulouse, Marc Antoine Calas, finding his life a
December 2003 -- Somewhere you've probably seen the old photos. The two men are wearing bowler hats and sack suits and celluloid collars
One year after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the FBI arrested six Yemeni immigrants in Lackawanna, New York, for aiding terrorists; the arrest
October 2003 --The following anecdote, although probably apocryphal, goes to the heart of Giuseppe Verdi's music: When he was finishing..
Мне всегда не нравился этот странный гибрид факта и вымысла, известный как "докудрама". Нечестная по своей сути затея, она смешивает акту
The essence of what makes fantasy popular is that it takes the reader out of his normal life into an extraordinary, value-laden, and highly
According to the American Cancer Society, an expected 1.5 million new cancer cases will be diagnosed in the U.S. this year, and around
Jennifer Burns’s engaging new biography of Ayn Rand focuses on Rand’s political and social views and on her connection to the Right in
I consider Bob Elliott a friend. We’ve traveled thousands of miles together. He’s made me laugh so hard I cried. Once, after he cracked a...
Those are not the kind of questions Landrum wants to be answering. “I’m looking for people who don’t need a lot of guidance,” he tells me...
David Segal begins his extended New York Times story on the SEC’s suit against Sam and Charles Wyly with several paragraphs denigrating
I would like to start by asking you all to secure yourselves in your seats. If you have any pointy objects, make sure they are facing away
I've gathered for you some poems that celebrate political and personal freedom. I like them, and I hope you will like them, too. This is onl
September 2004 -- As John Enright notes , there is a wealth of poetry about political and personal freedom. I thought Navigator's readers
Soft America lives off the productivity, creativity, and competence of Hard America, and we have the luxury of keeping part of our society S
