The "warmth of collectivism" fails again and again. It's failing now in Cuba, North Korea, Nicaragua and Venezuela. It was ...

The celebrated author on the challenges of being kind, the benefits of meditation and the reality check of death.

I have also been told that I don’t understand what capitalism is – or how a free market works. Of course, along with this ...

Bennett Cerf, co-founder of Random House, published many greats of 20th-century letters. The biography “Nothing Random” looks at his life and the times that shaped him.

While Ayn Rand achieved fame as a novelist, ( The Fountainhead/Atlas Shrugged, among her most famous) her first public ...

Laura Dave answers our burning questions, what is she reading, what book would she take to a desert island, what gave her the ...

Maduro is a murderous dictator who must face consequences for his brutal oppression of Venezuelans. His socialist ...

Outraged at what he deemed a literary injustice, Malcolm Cowley used his influence as a consulting editor at Viking and a well-connected critic to give Faulkner his due. In 1944-45 he published a ...