The form known as ekphrasis — or poetry about art — has taken a turn toward the individual. Our columnist asks what it means.

The Word of the Day entry explains belligerent through meaning, pronunciation and sample sentences. It shows how the term ...

The Word of the Day explains what ameliorate means and how it is used. The term refers to improving difficult situations and ...

“Women are, on the whole, better educated than they were 50 years ago and they simply are not satisfied to sit at home and ...

As an expert on personality disorders, people often ask me about psychopathy. It seems everybody has had an ex, a boss, a ...

Murray Rothbard knew that egalitarianism always resulted in policy disaster. Egalitarians, he said, should be forced to ...

In the AI age, "taste" is more than a buzzword. It's the unwritten rules a model must honor when correctness alone no longer ...

Perfect is no longer good enough ...

Douglas Wilson has a modest proposal to improve American life: He wants to repeal the Nineteenth Amendment, which gave women the vote. In his ideal system, “we would do it in our politics the same way ...

An analysis of ancient human artefacts finds that the container, a simple but critical tool, may have originated 500,000 years ago. Columnist Michael Marshall explores how slings, ostrich eggs and woo ...

I certainly feel there are dark forces of nationalism that are at play … that we haven’t seen in this country for decades. We ...