Arts & Culture

Miami Beach boasts the world’s greatest concentration of art deco buildings, which reflect a distinct era in American history—along with the can-do attitude that has defined the nation.

Michael Jackson was no child molester. The facts simply don’t support that horrific accusation. His acquittal in 2005 was the only evidence-based and morally defensible outcome.

Often scorned and rejected in her own day, Zora Neale Hurston was a pioneering writer who looked beyond the controversies of her time and sought to articulate a lasting vision of life—one free of bitterness or pettiness and full of grace and beauty.

What the sun can do for reality, poetry can do for life. It can inspire us with ideals, reveal the depth beyond the surface, burnish our lives with beauty, turn the simple into the sacred, and make us aspire past what things are to what they might be.

So miserable was my pre-Goodkind, pre-Rand life, that had I not discovered their works, I might be dead today.

Madison Cunningham, just twenty-five, already has proven herself a consummate artist with the power to fuse melody, meaning, and an eclectic blend of musical styles to create grand works that can still fairly be described as pop songs.

I hope you’ll join us in Boston for the most life-enhancing conference of the year—it’s gonna be a blast!

Whereas a lot of modern fiction advocates moral relativism or champions the “antihero,” Geralt of Rivia offers philosophically refreshing, action-packed rebuttals to those tiring tropes.

Here are some gift ideas that I think may enrich your holidays, your relationships, and your life. Merry Christmas!

Dorothy Fontana, who died this week at the age of eighty, is best known for her work as a writer for the original Star Trek television series. But, in fact, she was one of the most remarkable women in Hollywood history.