Notes From Italy: The Oversized Embassy
February 15, 2025Nor, it seems, do Americans get out of their diplomatic fortress the way they used to....
Hanna Rosin Discusses God’s Harvard
February 10, 2025"Tensions often arise between secular teachings and Biblical beliefs. Many students are reading, say Kant and...
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy by John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt
February 9, 2025Mearsheimer and Walt have written an excellent exposition of the Israel Lobby, both in articles and...
Notes From Italy: Looking Back at Mussolini
February 6, 2025Mussolini was not the only dictator of his time. In his Europe, in a time of...
A Talk With Cullen Murphy, Author of Are We Rome?
February 3, 2025"That said, the thinking that lay behind the invasion of Iraq—the notion that we could transform...
Look Homeward America by Bill Kauffman
February 2, 2025He is not much impressed with modernity, rejecting with certitude McDonald’s transfatty fries, the inter-state highway...
Dear Minister, America is Headed Down; Can It Reverse Course?
January 30, 2025In my view, the Americans’ most serious problem for the longer term is the development of...
Edmund Wilson: A Life in Literature by Lewis Dabney
January 26, 20251916 Princeton, a young and still slender Edmund Wilson was advised by professors to "seek the...
The Other Side of Israel: My Journey Across the Jewish/Arab Divide by Susan Nathan
January 23, 2025My worry was that this might be another leftist book that glibly made analogies between Israel...
The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East by Robert Fisk
January 21, 2025The title of Fisk’s new work is a mocking one, taken from a campaign medal his...