Robert Kaplan views the world’s great power rivalry as ‘an interconnected system of states in which no one really rules.’ ...

In this fascinating work of nonfiction, we learn that Nobel laureate and “The Waste Land” author T.S. Eliot, who claimed that his poetry was “impersonal,” had a long-term secret love ...

Yes, Ash Wednesday begins the season of Lent, a time of fasting, prayer and almsgiving in preparation for the waters of ...

With fewer race days and races in February 2025 compared to the previous year, wagering on U.S. Thoroughbred races took an ...

Waste Land: A World in Permanent Crisis is ... which was the focus of the Eliot poem that gives Kaplan’s book its title. “Eliot’s poem,” Kaplan writes, was about the “breakdown of ...

Regretful arts ­graduates and rabid ­modernist poetry fans will ­already be familiar with ­Madame Sosostris who featured in TS Eliot’s The Waste Land, his 1922 ­rumination on ­fractured identity in ...

T.S. Eliot wouldn’t have minded Robert D. Kaplan’s expropriating the title of his most famous poem for “Waste Land: A World in Permanent Crisis.” The decline of the West and the birth of ...