To watch the fifth episode of Ken Burns' "Baseball" is to see exactly what makes the sport great as a metaphor for the country.

The filmmaker’s appearance comes in the midst of the three-day A Common Cause to All conference, which brings in people from ...

Trump’s people have figured out that attention spans in the modern world are right up there with gnats. Who reads any more?

If the “red wolf” of lupus had not ended Flannery O’Connor’s life at age 39, what would the author be writing about in 2025?

Elizabeth Coffman is a documentary filmmaker and film scholar. Her NEH-sponsored film “Flannery” on Catholic writer Flannery O’Connor was the first winner for the Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns ...