An Interview with Rebecca Goldstein, author of “Betraying Spinoza”
November 28, 2025"The issue that animated his life and his thought was that of religious intolerance. The Jews...

DVD Review. I, Claudius: The Complete Series 35th Anniversary Edition
November 24, 2025The whip-smart dialogue, as fans of the series well know, forms a giddy counterpoint to an...

Book Review: George F. Kennan: An American Life by John Lewis Gaddis
October 19, 2025George Frost Kennan was one of the most influential of all American diplomats, as well as...
Book Review: Literary Brooklyn by Evan Hughes
September 28, 2025In his new history of the borough’s development you can virtually trace the emergence of America...
Book Review: The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean by David Abulafia
September 23, 2025David Abulafia’s new book about the Mediterranean Sea, The Great Sea, has everything a major work...
Book Review: The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker
September 19, 2025In this profound and spirited work, Pinker champions the civilizing process that, according to his detailed...
Purity and Danger: The Many Lives of the Italian Renaissance
September 3, 2025More importantly, the good-for-you, vitamin-enriched Renaissance we know today is itself a fairly recent, and largely...
Book Review: Carthage Must Be Destroyed by Richard Miles
September 3, 2025Carthage, however, was not merely conquered by Rome. As the title of Miles' book asserts, Carthage...
Book Review: Mightier Than The Sword: Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Battle for America by David S. Reynolds
August 14, 2025The escalating one-upmanship led to some truly bizarre innovations, such as casting famous boxers in the...
Book Review: Dividing the Spoils: The War for Alexander the Great’s Empire by Robin Waterfield
August 4, 2025It did not take long before most of the Diadochi were gripped by a lust for...






