How divided have Americans become? When it comes to the two-party war, the differences could not be starker. Pew Research Center has reported... Read More

According to David Wootton, we are living in a world created by an intellectual revolution initiated by three thinkers in the 16th to 18th... Read More

The NeverTrumpers may have failed to prevent Donald Trump from becoming president, but he has been a godsend for their public reputations.... Read More

The cult of safetyism dates only to about 2013. That was the start of an era in which it became worryingly common to hear that, on this or... Read More

This week's election will shake up the power structure in Washington. And if we're lucky, it might do the same for our bookshelves.Since the... Read More

Ever since the Enlightenment, Christianity has been exposed to rigorous examination that has contributed to the decline of organised faith.... Read More

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Let me begin on a personal note. Over half a century ago, my uncle, the historian Philip S. Foner, rescued Frederick Douglass from undeserved... Read More

Recent data breaches in the United States – from the Equifax scandal, which compromised some 143 million individuals' financial... Read More

"As a city on a hill” is a line borrowed from the Gospel of Matthew by John Winthrop, the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay... Read More

In the geography of the arts, Canadian is to American as Irish is to English and Jewish is to everyone. Social imitators by proximity, but... Read More

The greatest English Romantic novel was written in a year without a summer. Mount Tambora in Indonesia had erupted in April of 1815, and a... Read More

Michael Lewis has earned a reputation for turning what might be dry, boring material in another author's hands into gripping narrative. In... Read More