No less than the history of the world—beginning 100,000 years ago and extending through 2010—is presented in The New Atlas of World History: Global Events at a Glance, using... Read More

The seventies has recently been the subject of several good books, including this one, that show that the decade was much more complex than the failed presidencies of Nixon,... Read More

Adam Smith’s disciples, many of whom are free-market economists, believe that greedy individuals behave in ways that maximize the benefit to society. Competitive markets... Read More

Day-to-day existence confronts humanity with a phalanx of perils—wars, plagues, floods, droughts, earthquakes, economic upheavals. The list is as endless as human fears. In... Read More

The Human Rights Watch estimates there are twenty million sex workers in India. Feminists are divided on what to do. On one side, radical feminists take a political position,... Read More

Bedtime stories (for both children and adults) are often survivors from thousands of years ago, from before the time that science, logic, and reason tried their hardest to... Read More

How is the heart won? Laughter certainly loosens the bars; cleverness occupies the mind, leaves the creature unprotected. After that the heart is easily cleaved in two. Troy... Read More

The end David Marquand speaks of here is not a doomsday scenario in which the rising tide that is China and India washes away Europe and America. Rather, it is about the end of... Read More

Philosophers and theologians are well acquainted with navigating the murky waters of good and evil, and with trying to create definition around what’s “right” and... Read More

George Washington is quoted in "Cultivating Conscience" as saying, “Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.” This duality in human nature, and the connection... Read More

Much has been and will be written on Barack Obama the politician, but until now, little has appeared on Obama the intellectual. This lucid investigation of the president’s... Read More

With wit, wisdom, and occasional hilarity, Robert Kurzban offers explanations for why we do the things we do, such as morally condemning the sale of human organs and locking the... Read More