Every year, Nevada's Black Rock Desert gets transformed into a bustling metropolis known as Black Rock City. It's the epicenter of Burning Man, an event focused on art, self-expression and the ...

For all that John McCain accomplished in his three decades as a strong-willed U.S. senator, any discussion of his legacy still comes back to the period in his life between Oct. 26, 1967, and March 14, ...

U.S. REP. Walter B. Jones Jr., who died Sunday on his 76th birthday, was a fascinating lawmaker. He was a man who held strong convictions but who was willing to listen to the other side and could be ...

Though far from a prig, Richard Bland (71) is an unbending man. He detests war and all forms of violence, blood sports, meat eating and tobacco, and he once served a term in prison rather than bear ...

During the Cold War, when communism physically enslaved half the world, it also morally enslaved the hearts and minds of Western intellectuals such as Jean-Paul Sartre, who once said “an ...

How does a leader wreck a country's economy and still die an international hero? Julius Nyerere's imposition of Ujamma, or "familyhood," on newly independent Tanzania in 1961 was a signal failure. A ...

FACE OF A HERO (221 pp.)—Pierre Boulle—Vanguard ($3.50). In the intellectual landscape created by French Novelist Boulle, the most interesting sight is a special stream of Gallic irony. His heroes ...