The Perfection of Sailing

by K. E. Colombini

The supreme, historic delight of sailing is shared by many renowned authors. Continue Reading »

7 Nov 2022

The Theology of Foreign Policy

by Michael Doran

On matters of foreign policy, Americans are divided into two hidden camps. Not Republicans versus Democrats, nor liberals versus conservatives, nor rival schools of foreign policy you read about in college courses. The divide is primarily religious in nature—or perhaps “theological” is the . . . . Continue Reading »

1 May 2018

James and Melville, Two American Minds

by Junior Fellows

The junior fellows discuss Moby-Dick and Henry James's New York. Continue Reading »

2 Feb 2018

Melville in Manhattan

by Joseph Bottum

It should have been easy for Herman Melville to hate Manhattan—the “Babylonish brick-kilns of New York,” as he wrote Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1851. It was there in Manhattan he was born in 1819, at 6 Pearl Street, down by the Battery, while his ambitious, hard-driven father busily bankrupted . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Oct 1997