How History Shaped Brexit
Relevant Reading:Island Stories: An Unconventional History of Britain David Reynolds Basic Books, 2020, $30.00 The 2016 Brexit campaign, notes historian David Reynolds, was dominated by appeals to...
View ArticleThe Wall, the Square, and the Post-Cold War Order
Relevant Reading:Post Wall, Post Square: How Bush, Gorbachev, Kohl, and Deng Shaped the World after 1989 Kristina Spohr Yale University Press, 2020, $40.00 The world’s exit from the Cold War, argues...
View ArticleFurtwängler, Shostakovich, and Music in a Time of Crisis
Relevant Reading:Furtwängler and Shostakovich, Bearing Witness in Wartime Joseph Horowitz in The American InterestUnderstanding Toscanini: A Social History of American Concert Life Joseph Horowitz...
View ArticleTalking China (and Coronavirus) with Sulmaan Wasif Khan
Relevant Reading:How to Think About China Sulmaan Wasif Khan in The American InterestHaunted by Chaos: China’s Grand Strategy from Mao Zedong to Xi Jinping Sulmaan Wasif Khan As COVID-19 continues to...
View ArticleThe Making of Henry Kissinger
Relevant Reading:The Inevitability of Tragedy: Henry Kissinger and His World Barry Gewen, W.W. Norton & Company, 2020, $30.00What is a War Crime? Barry Gewen in The American Interest (2006)The...
View ArticleThe Rise of Britain’s Intelligence Services
Relevant Reading:Secret History: Writing the Rise of Britain’s Intelligence Services Simon Ball, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020, $34.95 How did Britain’s intelligence agencies, famously...
View ArticleStrange Rites and New Religions with Tara Isabella Burton
Relevant Reading:Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World Tara Isabella Burton, PublicAffairs, 2020, $28.00The Rise of Progressive Occultism Tara Isabella Burton in The American Interest...
View ArticleThe New Authoritarian Temptation
Relevant Reading:Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism Anne Applebaum, Doubleday, 2020, $25.00Plumbing the Allure of Authoritarianism Gabriel Schoenfeld in The American Interest...
View ArticleThe Life and Art of Ornette Coleman
Relevant Reading:Ornette Coleman: The Territory and the Adventure Maria Golia, Reaktion Books, 2020, $22.50 In Ornette Coleman: The Territory and the Adventure, Maria Golia explores the life of one of...
View ArticleThe Right Not To Be Lonely
Relevant Reading:Being Sure of Each Other: An Essay on Social Rights and Freedoms Kimberley Brownlee, Oxford University Press, 2020, $50 What are the ethical implications of the pandemic of loneliness...
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