To nobody’s surprise, 2025 was a tumultuous year. Reversing a half-century of cultural, domestic, and geopolitical rot had to take a heavy toll, which it did in the blood of one crusader. Yet while ...

With a cast led by George Clooney and featuring a sinister turn by Hugh Laurie, Joseph Heller’s classic anti-war novel becomes a can’t-look-away series. It’s not often that a novel creates a term that ...

Chuck Adams, the longtime editor who gave up career in law for one in publishing, died on October 6. He was 82. After receiving his bachelor’s and law degrees from Duke University, Adams worked ...

An Upper West Side apartment building that was controlled by the same family for more than a half-century is now in different hands. The property, 250 W. 85th St., a 15-story, 125-unit mixed-use ...

Cadets attend a David L. Jannetta Distinguished Lecture event in Sept. 13, 2023. Editor’s note: This story has been updated to clarify David Jannetta plans to discuss his contributions with the Air ...

Joseph E. Heller, 87, of Allentown, passed while in hospice care at Lehigh Valley Hospital on July 31, 2025. He was the husband of Carole D. (Ebert) Heller. Born in Allentown November 28, 1937 he was ...

Joseph L. Heller, 74, of New Holland, went to his Forever home on Sunday July 27, 2025. Born in Lancaster, he was the son of the late Clyde L. and Kathryn (Landis) Heller. He was the devoted husband ...

Some of the world’s wealthiest individuals — Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg — seem perpetually unsatisfied, living in constant anxiety about losing power, influence or relevance. Their ...

There are two kinds of British scandal. The old kind resemble the plays of Henrik Ibsen: studies of character failings and personal humiliation brought about by greed, desire and dishonesty. Think of ...

Idealism seems to piss people off. The old half/empty, half/full glass of water debate. Are things getting better or worse? Are people inherently good or selfish? Are all politicians crooked…“Ah, they ...

Joseph Heller, author of Catch-22 and its sequel, Closing Time, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky and Richard A. Lupoff, recorded in San Francisco on October 17, 1994. Since its original ...

In 2012, scholar John Turner published an award-winning biography of Brigham Young, a mountain of a man in Western Americana. But there remained a bigger fish to pursue, namely Joseph Smith, the ...