Get alerts when there is a new article that might interest you. Please sign me up for The Weekly Standard weekly newsletter. Stephen Greenblatt’s book on the influence of Lucretius is clever and curious—and notable for the ambition expressed in its title

How do old laws and regulations hem in policy changes today? Legislators including Sen. Mark Warner (D. , Va.) will join with law school professors and others. Sponsored by Common Good and the Bipartisan Policy Center. Tuesday at 8:30 a.m. , Carnegie Endow

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In the winter of 1417, an Italian humanist and former papal secretary named Poggio Bracciolini, on horseback and all alone in Southern Germany, discovered a very old book. He had recently found himself masterless and unemployed after Pope John XXIII, und

Rich people can now buy candidates, but does anybody care? Stephen Greenblatt, the Shakespeare scholar and award-winni

The Harold Morton Landon Translation Award of the Academy of American Poets This widely praised version of Dante's masterpiece, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award of the Academy of American Poets, is