Articles of Note

Richard Strauss was not a man of emotional or intellectual depth. Was dreary conventionality the wellspring of his inimitable music?... more »

New Books

Shakespeare's nemesis. Cursed by bad back, Lady Russell was powerful, litigious, and no stranger to armed combat... more »

Essays & Opinions

Immanuel Velikovsky, ambitious and exceedingly strange, sought a wholesale rethinking of astronomy, physics, geology ? indeed, all of modern science... more »