September 2007 -- Jede Kultur und ihre Institutionen sind die lebendige Verkörperung bestimmter grundlegender Ideen über den Menschen und seinen Platz in der Welt.
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...
November 2003 -- An jenem Dienstagmorgen starrte ich, wie so oft, auf meinen Computerbildschirm. Ein weißes Rechteck von Microsoft Word starrte zurück
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..
Ich habe diese seltsame Mischung aus Fakten und Fiktion, die als "Dokudrama" bekannt ist, schon immer verabscheut. Ein von Natur aus unehrliches Konstrukt, das Tatsachen und Fiktion durcheinander bringt.
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
