This Is Not A Conversation: Robert Cremins and Rob Zaretsky on Denis Diderot, Malcolm Bradbury, and Why We Write
What would Denis Diderot think of a campus protest?
What would Denis Diderot think of a campus protest?
What Machiavelli can tell us about Trump.
Albert Camus's confusion over Americans has become our confusion, while his observations cut as deeply today as they did 70 years ago.
"What strikes us today as terrifyingly new would in 1914 strike many Parisians, mutatis mutandis, as little more than déjà vu."
The mass media, it seems, will never run short of opportunities to numb us.
Herodotus would have had much to say about both the events that led to the tragic death of Aylan Kurdi, and the way it has been treated in the media.
Costica Bradatan and Robert Zaretsky on George Stiener and "The Idea of Europe" as a place defined more by philosophy than economics.
The Los Angeles Review of Books interview with novelist and journalist Kamel Daoud.
"How did the ideals of 1789 … morph into the horrors of 1793, steeped in blood, violence, and paranoia?"
2014 saw a bumper crop in World War I commemorations.
1894 marked an exceptional harvest of one of the most notable isms to take root in French soil: anarchism.
Was World War I, which started 100 years ago today, after all, inevitable?