An enduring theme of Western philosophy is that we are all one another's equals. Yet the principl...
Michel Winock situates Flaubert in France's century of great democratic transition. Wary of the m...
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Since 1945, as the U.S. has engaged in near-constant 'wars of choice' with limited congressional ...
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The event known as the Boston Massacre is among the most familiar in U.S. history, yet one of the...
Soldier of Christ reveals a paradoxical figure: a prophetic reformer of limited vision whose lead...
The first book in many years to take in the full sweep of national fiction, The Dream of the Grea...
Many people are familiar with American Commodore Matthew Perry's expedition to open trade relatio...
In 1889 Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman met in a Lower East Side coffee shop. Over the next fi...