When one looks into the window of a store which sells devotional art objects, one can't help wishing the iconoclasts had won.

Unfortunately for the modern dramatist, during the past century and a half the public realm has been less and less of a realm where human deeds are done, and m…

No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

A vice in common can be the ground of a friendship but not a virtue in common. X and Y may be friends because they are both drunkards or womanizers but, if the…