Thomas Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum's That Used to Be Us fights the latest upsurge of American declinism to a draw.

American master essayist Joseph Epstein adds Gossip to his literary quiver.

Martin van Creveld's The Age of Airpower flies high, but off-course.

A new five-disc set of the King's recordings begs the question: Was he really all that good?

Reconsidering a great American historian who faced some familiar dilemmas.

Are human rights prosecutions inexorably on the rise? It all depends on how you count them.

Millionaire Wall Streeters, media mavens and corporate titans make for unlikely populists.

What So Proudly We Hail is more than just a memorial to a bygone American era; it's a handbook for recovering endangered civic virtues.

If you expect the worst from people, they'll often oblige.

Alexander Del Mar's view on the origins of money were revolutionary for the 19^th century. Why have so few people heard of him?