Palm Beach Opera takes a more conservative path in its productions. This Figaro, with sets and costumes by Leslie Travers, ...

The Supreme Court ruled two years ago, in Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, that colleges and universities may not use race as a factor in admissions lest they ...

Nonfiction: Exit Wounds: A Story of Love, Loss, and Occasional Wars, by Peter Godwin (Summit Books): Exit Wounds, the elegiac new memoir by the essayist Peter Godwin, bills itself as a “story of love, ...

Thomas Philbrick on a concert by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.

Recent stories of note: “Vargas Llosa Stood for Freedom Against the Nationalist Tide” Tunku Varadarajan, The Wall Street ...