Friedrich von Hagedorn wrote humorous, didactic, sensuous lyric verse that introduced a secular and pragmatic strain into German baroque poetry. Breaking with many of the moral and aesthetic principles dominant at his time, he forged a path toward a...

FOR much of Friedrich von Hayek's career, mainstream economists tended to dismiss him as a free-market extremist who had lost the argument againstKeynesianism in the 1930s and 1940s. Even anti-Keynesians patronised him as avenerable polymath with correctly anti-interventionist views who nevertheless belonged down...

It's been roughly ten years since Charline yon Heyl started showing her abstract paintings--first in Germany in the early '90s and by mid-decade in New York. Even though her oil and mixed-media works on canvas have developed considerably, they retain their tentativeness and,...