How Israel Lost: The Four Questions
January 10, 2025There’s an old saying among the Jews that goes something along the lines of: we don’t...
Henry Adams and the Making of America by Garry Wills
January 9, 2025In Adams, Wills has chosen a slippery, famously evasive subject. Henry Adams (1838-1918) was an eccentric,...
Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson: The Politics of Enlightenment and the American Founding
January 9, 2025Study of the American founding fathers has become a hothouse industry. The capacity of the American...
Book Review: The Second World War by Antony Beevor
December 15, 2024Hitler’s Final Solution was not a separate campaign of mass murder, parallel to the fighting on...
Book Review: The Chinatown War: Chinese Los Angeles and the Massacre of 1871 by Scott Zesch
November 21, 2024As the 1860's ended, the steadily growing numbers of Chinese immigrants led to fears that eventually...
Book Review: Diaries by George Orwell
November 20, 2024Europe had yet to recover from the First World War and the Allied peoples were at...
Book Review: Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher by Timothy Egan
November 1, 2024The course of Curtis’ campaign to document the lives and life style of the Native American...
Book Review: Lincoln’s Hundred Days by Louis P. Masur
October 28, 2024The determination to end slavery may not have figured initially as a Union war aim for...
Book Review: Through the Eye of a Needle by Peter Brown
October 23, 2024Brown writes that Christian leaders had to carefully deploy Church resources, spiritual and financial, to create...
Beyond the Hedgerows of Cornwall
September 26, 2024It is of all the Celtic kingdoms the greenest and most beautiful. Palms, wisteria, and camellias...