Traditional Culture

Like spices in our recipes, language can liven up our senses. In his blurb to Willard R. Espy’s “An Almanac of Words at Play,” writer and once longtime host of ...

The jurists of the New Tang Dynasty International Piano Competition are classical musicians as well. They are pianists ...

Ludwig von Beethoven is inarguably one of the greatest composers Western civilization has ever produced. The staying power ...

Jade is a beautiful stone that suggests water-like fluidity and kindness. Beyond its delicate yet firm texture, it ...

Travel down I-81 through the Shenandoah Valley, and you’ll find this corridor jam-packed with attractions: numerous caverns, a ...

Rastatt Favorite Palace, located near Baden-Baden, Germany—where Romans discovered healing hot springs—served as a pleasure palace for the ...

As “wokeness” invades multiple facets of American life, from Hollywood stars bailing out rioters to pushes for critical race theory in public ...

If there was ever a monument of architecture dedicated to the feminine soul, Château de Chenonceau should be ...

In 1965, I was an eighth grader at Virginia’s Staunton Military Academy, a school now long defunct. One ...

New York's finest treasures, including five centuries of European Masterpieces, are now on display in Queensland, Australia in ...

At a certain time of year, American visitors ambling around the grounds of the Palace of Versailles can ...

Use your imagination—compare the modern monsters Godzilla and King Kong to the ancient monsters Pegasus and the Chimera. ...

In the rich tapestry of Western civilization, certain themes and stories keep recurring. They mark our culture’s continuity ...

The British Museum's treasures of Ancient Greece are coming to the National Museum of Australia, the Western Australian ...

So that they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not ...

The first thing that captivated Elsie Shi about classical Chinese dance was the flips—the way dancers looked as ...

In my adolescence, my friends, my brother, and I often pretended to be knights. Our shields were metal ...

We saw in our previous article that the fact that God in the Bible asks questions does not ...

Throughout American history, our wars have either popularized or produced songs that remain familiar to us today. The ...

It is Dec. 29, 1170, at Canterbury Cathedral in southeast England, one of the most important places of ...

The legions of keyboard warriors and hardcore comic-book fanboys finally have their victory over the Hollywood horde of ...

The school should always have as its aim that the young man leave it as a harmonious personality, ...

St. Augustine observed long ago that “whatever appears in the divine Word that can be referred neither to ...

Bright pink cherry blossoms against a brilliant blue sky is a sight unlike any other in the world. ...

From 594 to 622, Prince Shotoku ruled Japan. He certainly lived up to his name, for "sho" means sacred ...

The New Tang Dynasty (NTD) International Piano Competition has announced the details for its sixth competition to be ...

One of the most enduring of sounds, synonymous with the Emerald Isle, is that of the dulcet Irish ...