What can classical political philosophy teach us about international relations, and about the causes and preconditions of conflict between... Read More
“Don’t be evil” was the mantra of the co-founders of Google, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, the graduate students who, in... Read More
are is the man with the honor of having a dog breed named after him. Of course there is Charles II of England, who gave his name to... Read More
Just as every cub reporter entertains the notion of one day writing the Great American Novel, every American historian nurses somewhere the... Read More
The New York Times Magazine recently commemorated the four hundredth anniversary of the landing of the first ship that carried enslaved... Read More
Precious little of the English poetry written in the 20th century has passed into the common stock of universally recognized literary... Read More
Hitler’s lightning-fast advances across Europe in the early months of World War II led to suspicions that he owed his victories to... Read More
Detroit does not have the luxury of solving one problem at a time. It has been scarcely five years since the city emerged from... Read More
was raised as a Quaker, but around the age of 20 my faith faded. It would be easiest to say that this was because I took up philosophy... Read More
When the word “Puritan” entered the English language almost 500 years ago, it came as an insult—a “soul-killing... Read More
When former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg declined earlier this year to enter the Democratic presidential primary, he said that he... Read More
Those who complain about the current social and intellectual atmosphere in the academy are generally pretty sure of just one thing... Read More
he great Irish poet W.B. Yeats has an exquisite lyric, “The Road at My Door”, in his sequence Meditations in Time of Civil... Read More
During one of his recent confrontations with congressional Democrats, Donald Trump made a stunning comment about the United... Read More
Many years ago I was sitting in the basement of my Southern Baptist church in Louisville, Kentucky, when a friend asked: “Do you think... Read More
The backdrop of Michel Houellebecq’s novel is by now well established. In this — his eighth — the bleak, essentially... Read More
I cannot fix the date or place of my first meeting with Peter Collier, who died at 80 on Nov. 1. It must have been some time in the late... Read More
On January 1, 1914, the first scheduled passenger flights began soaring through the skies between St. Petersburg and Tampa,... Read More
The period of a year-and-a-half that elapsed between the spring of 1786 and the late summer of 1787 was as consequential as any in American... Read More
America lost one of its best friends late last month when Soviet-era dissident Vladimir Bukovsky died at 76 in Cambridge, England. The notoriously stubborn writer and non-violent activist inspired other dissidents by example, enduring a total of 12 years in phony psychiatric hospitals, prison and labor camps in the 1960’s and 70’s for speaking out against the tyrannical state. In spite of the ... Read More
The media frenzy has already begun around a forthcoming book by a person known only as "Anonymous." Excerpts are slowly being leaked out to liberal opinion hosts like MSNBC's Rachel Maddow in an effort to serve up the usual red meat to her audience. In this case, an old question must be asked: Where's the beef in this red meat? Because Anonymous is just that: An unknown entity. There are l... Read More
‘The strong do what they can. The weak suffer what they must.’ Thucydides’ principle expresses an uncomfortable truth. The eight-day meeting between Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill at Yalta in the Crimea in February 1945 settled the fate of Eastern Europe and beyond. Its effects are still with us. President George W. Bush compared it with the way Britain, France and the Soviet Union sold out... Read More
In Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story, Wilfred M. McClay has produced an inspiring exploration of America’s past that is out of step with the fashionably fractured narratives...
