Believers and Infidels
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Lincoln Emancipated: The President And the Politics of Race edited by Brian R. Dirck; foreword by Allen C. Guelzo
May 26, 2026What is heartening is that, as Professor Michael Vorenberg stresses in his essay, Lincoln’s thinking about...
The Enlightenment and the Intellectual Foundations of Modern Cultureby Louis Dupre
May 25, 2026The seventeenth and eighteenth century philosophical movement that came to be known as the Enlightenment was...
Edmund Wilson: A Life in Literature by Lewis Dabney
May 24, 20261916 Princeton, a young and still slender Edmund Wilson was advised by professors to "seek the...
Empire of the Stars by Arthur I. Miller
May 23, 2026So why did Eddington savage his young colleague nine years later? Jealousy? Racism? A threat to...
A Grand Tour of Asia – by Hania Tallmadge and Beverley Jackson
May 23, 2026I’m not sure what category A Grand Tour of Asia by Hania Tallmadge and Beverley Jackson...
The Future Without A Past: The Humanities In A Technological Society by John Paul Russo
May 23, 2026Weaver was referring, of course, to the media in all its forms and the pernicious effects...
The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East by Robert Fisk
May 21, 2026The title of Fisk’s new work is a mocking one, taken from a campaign medal his...
The Bloodiest Day: December 6, 1967
May 21, 2026In Lieutenant Morris’ words, “We moved into the woods and within minutes all hell broke loose.”...
The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West by Niall Ferguson
May 21, 2026Niall Ferguson is hot—about as hot as a historian can get.




