Ernst Cassirer’s life and work may bear special interest to Americans in a time of trouble and uncertainty.

The French don't like headscarves. John Bowen explains why.

Martin Malia and Jay Winter examine utopians and the movements—major and minor—they spawned.

Political humor is serious business.

The literati scoffed at Albert Camus’ place on President Bush’s summer reading list. They misunderestimated them both.

Two books, one on law as culture and the other on Arabs, unexpectedly illuminate both subjects when read together.

Pollsters and pundits keep plumbing “why they hate us”, and keep missing the point.

Lewis Mumford had big ideas for little people.

Bruce Springsteen’s latest is an acoustic history lesson you can dance to.

The former Congressman takes the measure of a new history of the House.