This year’s Salzburg Festival performance of Alban Berg’s 1925 opera Wozzeck captures the essence of World War I and the violent potential of mankind’s dehumanizing tendencies.

Song lyrics as the gateway to an appreciation of poetry.

Much like the Spanish Inquisition, no one expected the Great Recession. Why didn’t America’s highly paid economists have a clue? Will they ever get their act together?

The Vietnam War gets Ken Burns’s signature “docutainment” treatment, and the result is a worthy one, if not always up to full scholarly standards.

The President underestimates the unique genius of postwar American grand strategy: that by serving others’ interests, the United States has also served its own.

Anniversaries are fertile ground for historical distortions. So how should we understand today’s centenary of the Balfour Declaration?

Democratic backsliding in Asia proves that the time for democratic multilateralism in the region is now.

The coming tax cuts cannot possibly be the great and simplifying tax reform that the President and Big Six claim, and that our nation so badly needs.

State-level Democratic leaders are showing how populism and pragmatism combined can energize liberal turnout while still winning crucial swing-state support.

The demographic crisis affecting E.U. countries will not be solved by the many young immigrants coming from North Africa and the Middle East.