Like Richard Nixon, Donald Trump understands that periods of geopolitical reordering offer generational opportunities to update and reconfigure the world system.

Trump's second administration is 'unprecedented' to some, but historians find parallels in ancient Rome, Nazi Germany, and ...

Tiananmen massacre, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the implosion of the Soviet empire, was another. I was on hand to see each of these things happen, and from that perspective it seems to me that, ...

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a man of letters, in possession of a goodly number of books, must be in need of a ladder.

In “The Prosecutor,” Jack Fairweather tells the story of Fritz Bauer, the German jurist who helped find Eichmann in Argentina ...

Tariq Trotter’s 2023 memoir about growing up in Philadelphia will be the focus of the Free Library’s all-city reading program.

Author Raj Tawney shares how recent political developments have suddenly recreated an environment captured in his recent ...

The true story behind A Thousand Blows by the show's historical advisor - Steven Knight’s story of boxing and thievery is ...

Alba de Céspedes’s book, a coming-of-age novel following eight young women in Rome, is perfect for fans of Elena Ferrante. “Blood on Satan’s Claw,” by Robert Wynne-Simmons, is a novel by ...

Toobin couches his exploration of Gerald Ford’s pardon of Richard Nixon within both the broader context of mounting presidential hegemony ...

Radio Treason, Rebecca West’s famed 1947 book on Lord Haw-Haw, makes for fascinating reading. But today’s edition cries out for footnotes ...

George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence, spent his life engaged in a power struggle that pitted cousins and siblings against ...