The Moses of His Day
How Theodor Herzl became the unlikely father of Zionism.
Articles by Joseph Epstein
War for the West
What if the Persians had defeated the Greeks?
A Philosophe in Full
Denis Diderot's Enlightenment.
The Menace of Political Correctness
The Good Intentions Paving Company strikes again.
Ruined by His Own Glory
The twists and turns of Alcibiades' life.
The Music of the Grand American Show
Reading H.L. Mencken’s The American Language.
Hail, Mommsen
A German historian's tribute to Rome.
Frivolous, Empty, and Perfectly Delightful
P.G. Wodehouse's world.
How to Talk Like a Politician
American political rhetoric's decline.
University of Chicago Days
Knowledge is good.
White Mischief
A portrait of the author as a young man.
A Thinker, I Suppose
Does Isaiah Berlin still matter?
From Tom to T.S.
A review of Young Eliot: From St. Louis to The Waste Land, by Robert Crawford.
As American as Humble Pie
Joseph Epstein reviews David Bobb's new book on humility.
My Fair Language
A review of The Language Wars: A History of Proper English, by Henry Hitchings
Against the Virtual Life
A review of Digital Barbarism: A Writer's Manifesto, by Mark Helprin