In Murder in Amsterdam, Ian Buruma equivocates when clarity would have enlightened readers.
Why the Cold War was so instrumental in Europe's success.
Anti-Americanism takes many forms -- most of them unfair. But as long as it strives to be a City upon a Hill, America Must learn to live with it.
Two recent histories of Nazi Germany shore up the dyke against the rising flood of "Germany as victim" revisionism.
Ernest Gellner's Conditions of Liberty is the best treatment of civil society to emerge from a post-Cold War perspective. Gellner himself these days is in Prague much of the time, studying the process of regeneration from the inside.
Review of Robert Skidelsky and John Maynard Keynes' The Economist as Saviour 1920-1937(New York: Allen Lane, Penguin Press, 1994).