POLITICS

I have never met Harvey Mansfield, the distinguished scholar and Harvard University Professor of Government, Emeritus, but he strikes me as the kind of professor I had in my first graduate course at Georgia State University, then a commuter college in downtown Atlanta, in 1992. That professor taught Early American Literature with the appreciation, insight,

At a time when most royal biographers (myself, alas, included) tend to major in snark and intrigue when it comes to Britain’s most beleaguered family, it is that major-domo of probity Hugo Vickers who is on hand to restore integrity and balance to historical and social dissection of the Firm. He assures us early in

As a college freshman in the fall of 1994, I read Alex Kotlowitz’s There Are No Children Here in an introductory sociology course. For a week, I was over the moon. Here was a gripping story about good kids surviving a fearsome public-housing complex—a story that braided heartbreaking interviews, contemporary news, historical events, and policy

Sonny Rollins, the tenor saxophonist who died on May 25 at the age of 95, was a jazz musician’s musician. The last of the big boppers, Rollins was the marathon runner of the chordal labyrinth. But the Theseus of the tenorists was more likely than most of the great jazzers to be seen than heard.