Walter Laqueur Books & Reviews

Night and Fog

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 Champion for the Bourgeoisie

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.

Bad Laws Make Bad Judges

Robert Bork warns that judicial activism is going global. He doesn't know the half of it.

Kaplan's War

Robert Kaplan advocates a pagan ethos for American statesmen in the 21st century, but not all pagans think alike.

The Best Defense

Can John Mearsheimer's analysis of "offensive realism" explain or guide U.S. foreign policy? Better, perhaps, than the author realizes.

Riding the Tiger

Preventing the spread of atomic weaponry is less in our control than we think.

Subverting Kant

An Irishman of indefatiguable mind and rare sensibilities.

Attraction and Chastisement

The counterinsurgency that worked--a century ago.

Nature's Pitchfork

The sky is falling, really.

Thoroughly Modern Freddy

A new biography of a talented and enlightened despot.

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May 26, 2012