Monthly Archives: August, 2019

High architecture, that of grand buildings, is a bridge between God and man, and a sinew binding state and people, the ruling class and...

American Genesis is a cultural history of the grand century of American technology, from 1870 to 1970. Thomas Hughes published his book in 1989,...

Among the many idols of our age, there is one that rules them all: John Stuart Mill’s harm principle, the belief that an individual’s...

I generally liked this book, by the erudite Orientalist Robert Irwin, but I am not sure why it exists. It is too academic to...

I have always loathed the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen. Bleak, unhappy, and cold, they depressed me as a child, and I’m not...

This book, a massive study by two Israeli historians, aspires to answer why and how Turkey exterminated its Christian population in the thirty years...