The only thing more scientifically suspect than Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” is the conservative response to it.

The theory that rapid economic growth is politically stabilizing seems too stupid to kill–but Mancur Olson tried.

The Founders were neither orthodox Christians nor secularists. They were, however, wise.

Shlomo Ben-Ami has done something remarkable, says a veteran U.S. Middle East Diplomat: He’s said something new.

The re-publication of Leszek Kolakowski’s magisterial Main Currents of Marxism is cause for celebration. The migration of the utopian illusion he understood so well is not.

What do recent trials of Slobedan Milosevic and Saddam Hussein have to do with venerable postwar legacy of Nuremberg? Not enough.

Cultural critic Phillip Rieff has been a man of few but powerful words. Now, at age 84, he has published the first volume of a new trilogy.

The Ruling Caste is the best book on the British civilians who ruled India in 50 years. Americans might learn something from it.

Two years after the Abu Ghraib story came to light, we still haven't gotten to the bottom of its darkness.

Michael Mandelbaum’s The Case for Goliath likens America’s global role to that of a government. A distinguished French observer, astonishingly agrees.