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Whistling past the graveyard of empires.

A book by the famous British historian was not published in Russia because the Moscow publisher discovered too many errors and misrepresentations—not, as Figes suggested, for political reasons.

Why are Yale and other top universities teaching a Grand Strategy seminar if the conditions that seemed to call for grand strategizing no longer exist?

For Mary Dudziak, we are now experiencing a time of permanent war, one that does not bother everyday Americans.

On the history of the US economy in decline.

How a confrontation is shaping up between the US/NATO and the BRICS.

Hitchcock delighted in manipulating the audience. Early on Luis Buñuel learned to be satisfied with amusing himself.

As NYPL President Anthony Marx wages a public outreach campaign, opposition to the library’s renovation plan picks up support from Mario Vargas Llosa, Salman Rushdie, Jonathan Lethem and others.

If their fortunes are ever to revive, liberals must find a way to recapture FDR’s militant and optimistic spirit.

Norman Davies’s Vanished Kingdoms.