In his two latest books, the world-weary spy writer trains his pen on Trump, Brexit, and populism—and offers a surprisingly optimistic take on the next generation.

Does economics have something to tell us about religion? Probably, but far less than it has to tell us about other issues.

A new book by Iain McGregor offers a vivid account of daily life in divided Berlin, collecting the stories of ordinary people who lived, worked, and served on either side of Checkpoint Charlie.

In his new book, Rich Lowry makes a plausible case for an inclusive brand of American nationalism—but fails to see the malignancy of the version that is currently warping our politics.

Will Arbery’s off-Broadway smash offers a vivid glimpse into the world of Catholic conservatives in the Trump era—but its ending undercuts its convictions.

Seventy-five years after its debut, the existentialist drama speaks profoundly to our age of social media-fueled isolation.

In his lucid new memoir, Thomas Chatterton Williams channels Albert Camus and James Baldwin—and offers a thoughtful counterpoint to the tired racial dogmas of both Right and Left.

Jeremy Corbyn could very well be Britain’s next Prime Minister. In this context, it is worth examining what has in many ways become the ur-text for the new British Marxism: Clear Bright Future: A Radical Defence of the Human Being, by Paul Mason.

Conservative intellectuals in the Trump era have taken to lambasting free trade and international institutions. Dalibor Rohac’s In Defense of Globalism could not, therefore, have come at a more opportune time.

Sixty years on, Walter M. Miller Jr.’s post-apocalyptic novel, A Canticle for Leibowitz, offers a poignant rebuke to the political extremists of our own time.