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The Metropolitan Museum of Art is deaccessioning a trove of Chinese ceramics and jades.

Some three hundred years ago in the early 1700s, in a small village in the Champagne region of France, there lived a humble Catholic priest who dutifully led mass, administered the sacraments, oversaw baptisms and funerals, and kindly tended to the existential needs of his flock. All the while, ...

In an excerpt from his most recent book, Charles Ellis writes about one of the founding tales of the asset management industry — and why it still matters.

A new biography of Kiki de Montparnasse argues that she lived and worked at the heart of the Parisian avant-garde of the 1920s.

A new biography of Kiki de Montparnasse argues that she lived and worked at the heart of the Parisian avant-garde of the 1920s.

The double-debacle of President Trump’s impeachment and the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate race shows the limit of an American article of faith: that its democracy is founded on the principle of “we the people”. “We the people” is more an aspiration, even a myth, rather than the existing reality. The reality is that citizens’ votes are not the primary driver of democratic rule. The nature of ruling power is determined by the elites: the tiny minority of ruling class tha...

The Iliad, and I still havent gotten around to The Odyssey at all. Probably should have done that the other way around. I dont think theres a New-Testament-only NLT; and Im never going to read the Old Testament again. Once is enough. The version I read was an old "Readers Bible" from sixty or eighty years ago that lightly regularized the King James Version (KJV) and modernized its formatting to make through-reading easier. But Ive read the New Testament several times in different translations....