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.
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.
Robert Kaplan advocates a pagan ethos for American statesmen in the 21st century, but not all pagans think alike.
Can John Mearsheimer's analysis of "offensive realism" explain or guide U.S. foreign policy? Better, perhaps, than the author realizes.
Preventing the spread of atomic weaponry is less in our control than we think.
An Irishman of indefatiguable mind and rare sensibilities.
The counterinsurgency that worked--a century ago.
The sky is falling, really.
A new biography of a talented and enlightened despot.