Recent archaeological excavations in Hüllhorst, Germany, have revealed a rare and remarkably well-preserved Iron Age village. The discovery was made on a site originally designated for the ...

Moral clarity rarely emerges from comfort. It comes from the willingness to name what is wrong, even when doing so risks alienating congregants, donors, or political allies.

William L. Shirer, who witnessed a 1934 Nazi rally in Nuremberg, would link the criminality of individuals to communal frenzy. Corbis Nineteen sixty: Only 15 years had passed since the end of World ...

It has always been a lovely building – four stories of limestone and intricate detail. What made it so wrong was that it represented a brief but ugly chapter in Cincinnati history. The Renaissance ...

IN THE fall of 1946 an American commission consisting of government officials, educators, and scientists toured Germany. (I have a particularly vivid memory of the striking personality of Reinhold ...

Following is one in a series examining the story behind the names at prominent venues and facilities in the community. Longtime resident H. Ward Beebe remembers a very different Bunker Hill than many ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. A New History of German Literature actually delivers far more than its title suggests. It consists of some 200 ...

At the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta, Katarina Witt, the figure skater once dubbed “the most beautiful face of socialism,” took to the ice to perform a routine set to Bizet’s opera Carmen.

9 B.C.: Pagan Germanic tribes check advancing Romans in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, ending northward spread of Roman civilization, bounding the Roman Empire by the Danube and Rhine. c.700 A.D.

Dr. Josef Klemperer, a man who’s haunted by the ghosts of Germany’s past. Photo: Amazon Prime Video Suspiria takes place in Berlin in 1977, and boy, does it ever. Luca Guadagnino’s new film is very ...