The Dead Sea is a unique subject, located as it is at the intersection of three major religions. Its history is as rich and combustible as might be expected. Students of the... Read More

With a unique methodology, Black performs a what-if analysis of history to show how little it takes to change the world’s fate. Jeremy Black’s recent historical analysis,... Read More

This book takes a unique approach to a World War II memoir, combining not only the stories of a father and son, but both men’s years apart writing about the subject. When the... Read More

Spiritual health leads to physical health, said Kellogg, the charismatic subject of this quirky biography. He’s a round, goateed fellow, dapper in his all-white suit (the... Read More

Evolution is an ongoing process, as Charles Darwin famously argued, and so, as would be expected, the English language has undergone radical change since 1859 when Darwin... Read More

In re-examining the myth of the “righteous,” Grabowski unearths disturbing truths about Polish citizens’ complicity in the Holocaust. Jan Grabowski returns with an... Read More

Essays on historic and current anti-Semitism do an outstanding job of describing its chilling diversity. While the Holocaust was the worst crime of modern anti-Semitism, it was... Read More

How much of what we think we know of Israel and Palestine corresponds to reality, and how much is fed by distortions? Hillel Bardin’s nuanced account of Israeli-Palestinian... Read More

Some writers have a gift for creating cozy scenes and comfortable locales despite a larger context of unease and violence. In her new novel "An American Tune", Barbara Shoup... Read More

The United States Supreme Court’s October 2012 term opened with a flutter. Media buzzed about how the high court might rule on two divisive race-related issues: the Voting... Read More

In modern American electoral politics, “message” has become a convenient shorthand term for both the narrative a politician tries to convey and the verbal and body language... Read More

From the early days of the Obama administration, Republicans in the Senate have used the filibuster to an unprecedented degree. They deployed the obstructionist tactic not only... Read More