Notes From Italy: The Oversized Embassy
June 12, 2026Nor, it seems, do Americans get out of their diplomatic fortress the way they used to....
Hanna Rosin Discusses God’s Harvard
June 9, 2026"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
June 6, 2026Mearsheimer and Walt have written an excellent exposition of the Israel Lobby, both in articles and...
Notes From Italy: Looking Back at Mussolini
June 4, 2026Mussolini was not the only dictator of his time. In his Europe, in a time of...
Look Homeward America by Bill Kauffman
June 1, 2026He is not much impressed with modernity, rejecting with certitude McDonald’s transfatty fries, the inter-state highway...
A Talk With Cullen Murphy, Author of Are We Rome?
May 31, 2026"That said, the thinking that lay behind the invasion of Iraq—the notion that we could transform...
Dear Minister, America is Headed Down; Can It Reverse Course?
May 27, 2026In my view, the Americans’ most serious problem for the longer term is the development of...
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...
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 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.




