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November 26, 2024
A World of Enemies
A sobering account of how the United States trapped itself in endless wars—abroad and at home—and what it might do to break free. Over the past half-…
November 10, 2024
Inheritance
Each of us is endowed with an inheritance--a set of evolved biases and cultural tools that shape every facet of our behavior. For countless generation…
October 24, 2024
Dear Unknown Friend
In the tense years of the early Cold War, American and Soviet women conducted a remarkable pen-pal correspondence that enabled them to see each other …
October 18, 2024
China Under Mao
"With the benefit of hindsight, it is clear that 1949 was actually the beginning, not the end, of the Chinese revolution." Building from this premise,…
October 4, 2024
Muslim Zion
Pakistan, founded less than a decade after a homeland for India's Muslims was proposed, is both the embodiment of national ambitions fulfilled and, in…
September 25, 2024
Born to Rule
Who runs Britain? In Born to Rule: The Making and Remaking of the British Elite (Harvard UP, 2024), Aaron Reeves, and Sam Friedman, both Professors of…
September 21, 2024
The Unseen Truth
In a masterpiece of historical detective work, Sarah Lewis exposes one of the most damaging lies in American history. There was a time when Americans …
September 17, 2024
Religion As Make-Believe
It is an intuitive truth that religious beliefs are different from ordinary factual beliefs. We understand that a belief in God or the sacredness of s…
September 8, 2024
Building a Ruin
A masterful account of the global Cold War’s decisive influence on Soviet economic reform, and the national decay that followed.What brought down the …
September 7, 2024
Time and Its Adversaries in the Seleucid Empire
In the aftermath of Alexander the Great’s conquests, the Seleucid kings ruled a vast territory stretching from Central Asia to Anatolia, Armenia to th…
September 3, 2024
Against Constitutional Originalism
The legal theory of constitutional originalism has attracted increasing attention in recent years as the US Supreme Court has tilted with the weight o…
September 1, 2024
Speaking for Others
We are familiar with the idea of a formal representative, and perhaps the idea of a formal political representative readily comes to mind. Roughly, t…
August 28, 2024
The Devil’s Music
I was immediately drawn to the book The Devil’s Music: How Christians Inspired, Condemned, and Embraced Rock n’ Roll (Harvard University Press, 2018) …
August 25, 2024
One Belt One Road
China’s One Belt One Road policy, or OBOR, represents the largest infrastructure program in history. Yet little is known about it with any certainty. …
August 24, 2024
Waiting for the People
Indians, their former British rulers asserted, were unfit to rule themselves. Behind this assertion lay a foundational claim about the absence of peop…
August 13, 2024
Undocumented Lives
In the 1970s, the Mexican government acted to alleviate rural unemployment by supporting the migration of able-bodied men. Millions crossed into the U…
July 22, 2024
The Road to Dallas
There are some topics that historians know not to touch. They are just too hot (or too cold). The assassination of JFK is one of them. Most scholars w…
July 16, 2024
Masters of the Middle Waters
America’s waterways were once the superhighways of travel and communication. Coursing through a central line across the landscape, with tributaries co…
July 3, 2024
Growth
Daniel Susskind examines the brief and powerful history of economic growth and puts it into perspective with human prosperity in Growth: A History and…
June 27, 2024
Building a Nation at War
Building a Nation at War: Building a Nation at War: Transnational Knowledge Networks and the Development of China during and after World War II (Harva…