Contemporary artists are co-opting the visual tropes of romantic rural scenes and bringing them to uncanny new ends in the ...

On this reading, it is Machiavelli who injects the civic humanism of the Renaissance into the English and American thinkers of the 17th and 18th centuries. This was already a breathtaking double ...

What is needed is a clear-eyed assessment of our past and present so that we know what it would take to create a truly egalitarian and cosmopolitan culture at home and in the world.