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
Suicide terrorism may be more rational than meets the eye.
Radical Islam is its own worst enemy. It will marginalize itself unless the United States overreacts.
Alan Furst recreates the atmosphere of Europe's second Dark Ages (1933-45) as few others have. Today, Western civilization is again under attack, and Furst can teach us a great deal.
There is much room for debate on the soundness of neoconservative policies. But a serious assessment of neocons and their role in the Bush Administration is a necessary starting point.
Carnes Lord Takes the gloves back off Machiavelli and gives us something we can use.
"Getting the wind up", is an old British expression for panicking.
A fictional 19th-century detective disdains Russia's intelligentsia and preaches a bourgeois sermon on virtue and responsible citizenship to Russia's nascent middle class.
Robert Bork warns that judicial activism is going global. He doesn't know the half of it.
A history of the Hungarians, by a Hungarian, for everyone.