Why there should be a run on the philosopher’s books, on what would have been his 109th birthday today
A new memoir by the grandson of a Russian bibliophile is also a great intellectual history of the 20th century
Lady Berlin, a French-Jewish aristocrat, was ‘the last of her generation’
By failing to name a street after the controversial philosopher, the city of Jerusalem proved he was right
Rick Santorum gets much about America very wrong. But there’s one thing he understands that’s crucial to winning elections and governing effectively.
The Free World, David Bezmozgis’ novel about a family of Soviet émigrés stuck in Rome waiting for visas to North America, explores the joys—and costs—of newfound liberty
Mario Vargas Llosa, this year’s winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, is a lifelong defender of ethnic minorities—and a committed Judeophile
The controversial leftist Israeli politcal scientist Zeev Sternhell paints a damning, if perhaps uncontextualized, portrait of ‘anti-Enlightenment’ thinkers
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