Counsel at Crossroads: Job and Arjuna
December 14, 2025The Book of Job and a central section of the Indian epic Mahabharata present interesting perspectives...
Goethe and Tagore – Unexpected Interests
December 14, 2025Goethe and Tagore, separated by time and contexts, but joined in their great felicity over the...
Frau Braun and The Tiger of Auschwitz
December 14, 2025The principal accused was an Auschwitz commandant, one Wilhelm Boger, whose sobriquet was “The Tiger of...
A Toast to Tristan Egolf
December 14, 2025He would furiously lead anti-war marches weekly on our courthouse steps. He improvised chants and picket...
Horace Greeley: Champion of American Freedom byRobert C. Williams
December 14, 2025Horace Greeley is a familiar name, but how much do today’s Americans know about him? Most...
The Great Risk Shift – by Jacob S. Hacker
December 13, 2025After winning reelection in 2004, President George W. Bush made restructuring Social Security his top domestic...
Book Review: Myths from Mesopotamia by Stephanie Dalley
December 12, 2025I asked them why they, unannounced, wished to meet with the director and they told me...
Reflections on the Dawn of Consciousness
December 12, 2025Jaynes, a psychologist who taught at Princeton up until his death in 1997, showed how ancient...
Dissonance: The Turbulent Days Between Fort Sumter and Bull Run: by David Detzer
December 12, 2025David Detzer’s new book "Dissonance" completes his trilogy about those fateful weeks and months of 1861,...
Eagle Dreams – Searching for Legends in Wild Mongolia – by Steve Bodio
December 12, 2025The image of a fierce Mongol horseman riding the harsh plains of his native land with...




