In a typical year, more than 2 million recent U.S. high-school graduates begin college in the fall. Students and families, in taking the…
Nuggets of amber occasionally reward patient beachcombers who wade through miles of cold, gray clay on the southern shores of the Baltic…
This wide-ranging and illuminating book links the history of business in India to broader global and national trends across three centuries…
Human rights is a hybrid field of scholarship – at a minimum part law, part history, part philosophy and part political science. This…
In her subtle and rigorous book, Margaret Gilbert develops a theory of what she calls ‘demand rights’. Demand rights are rights for which…
Having only recently read Ron Chernow’s excellent biographies of Alexander Hamilton (Chernow, 2004), George Washington (Chernow, 2010), and…
This is the third in a trilogy of documentaries about the wine world from Jason Wise. The first—Somm, a marvelous film which I reviewed for…
David Stebenne’s “Promised Land: How the Rise of the Middle Class Transformed America, 1929-1968” invites us to remember those decades in…