The Artful Traveler: Art Under Open Skies
Three American Sculpture Gardens Worth Traveling For. At these remarkable outdoor American museums, the landscape is not merely a setting for the art. It is part of the art.
Don’t Just Visit the City: The Enlightened Traveler’s Guide to Easy Day Trips from Amsterdam, London, and Tokyo
July 17, 2026 | By PoliticsMoneyCulture Editors You arrive in a great city, check into a good hotel, make dinner reservations, dutifully visit the museums, and never once leave the gravitational pull of the capital. You've done a lot, but you still are missing out on some great discoveries. The Markthal is a residential and office building with a bustling market hall underneath, a must-see on your daytrip to Rotterdam Dynamic capitals like Amsterdam, London, and Tokyo are not
The Enlightened Traveler: The Great Seat-Recline Debate
July 10, 2026 | By Bruce R. Feldman In a recent New Yorker essay, Joshua Rothman takes on one of modern travel’s most surprisingly emotional questions: should you recline your airplane seat? The piece frames the issue as both tiny and enormous: only a few inches are involved, but those inches can feel like a moral referendum on how we behave in shared space. Rothman calls it “the central dilemma of our time,” with a wink, but the essay’s point is serious: airline cabins have
