There is no simple answer to the causes of terrorism. But three books offer insight into the complexities of man and his motivation to kill. These explanations come not from academic tomes, nor expositions by the burgeoning cottage industry of ter
Mearsheimer and Walt should have included more field work in their research. Yet their book still deserves to be read and discussed.
Suicide terrorism may be more rational than meets the eye.
Two recent histories of Nazi Germany shore up the dyke against the rising flood of "Germany as victim" revisionism.
Impressive historical scholarship on migration cannot save Professor Hoerder from the miasma of current academic fashions.
Christopher Hitchens' diatribe against Henry Kissinger should disappoint even the most credulous of the statesman's opponents. Effective polemic this is not.
Twentieth-century atrocities receive an unrewarding spin for the television age.
A "new history" of the Third Reich fails to understand the true nature of the regime.
Davies has written a work worthy of the remarkable continent with which he deals; a continent that is now struggling to redefine and reunify itself, and whose cultures have been released once again to meet and mingle.
Marlin Fitzwater was the most effective and well-liked press secretary since John F. Kennedy's Pierre Salinger. Fitzwater spent six years working for two presidents of markedly different public styles, Ronald Reagan and George Bush, and lived to t