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A new biography shows the complexity and nobility of Sir Thomas More.
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The Rule of Law and the Fate of Rome

A new biography explores the work and mind of a leading American journalist of the twentieth century.
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The Shape of Publius

Politics, Culture, and Congressional Decadence
Thatcher’s Post Script

The twentieth century saw America discard representative government when it comes to war.
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As a new book on their travels together shows, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison's friendship went beyond politics.
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Prospects for Congress

A new book by Chantal Delsol exposes the ideological perversion choking French politics.
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The new crypto regulatory framework fixes one problem while worsening another.
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Decadent Ideology, Decaying Fraternity

A new edition of David Walsh’s classic book reminds us that liberalism has not failed, even if it faces a serious crisis.
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Rousseau’s Republic of Letters
What Is an American?

A Quiet Administrative Revolution

Liberal critics of originalism do not understand that the limits imposed by the Constitution uphold democratic legitimacy and popular sovereignty.
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The West’s Quest

Stoicism and the Technology of Loneliness

How much did the CIA book program contribute to the fall of the Soviet Union?
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The Great Siege of Malta through Ottoman eyes

The Kaiser and the Nazis

Bob Dylan, the last of the best

America’s retreat from free trade

An empire of ivory and inhumanity

What the Taliban did next

How a Republic falls

How monks shaped Christendom

A glimpse of Edwardian splendour

What Mary Shelley did in the shadows

How to save imperial history

How to save imperial history

England’s time of troubles

How Mitrokhin waged war from the archives

Lawrence Durrell’s lost Mediterranean

The Constant Wife – a sparkling revival of Somerset Maugham’s masterpiece

Suleyman the Magnificent’s secret history

Slavery in the shadow of the Qur’an

Food as a weapon of war

Peter Frankopan on the global threat to liberty​

Mary Elise Sarotte on how a Second Cold War could have been averted​

Alexander Lee on the myth of Venice​

Roel Sterckx on gazing back to see China’s future​

Brendan Simms on the German key to European liberty​

Madame Bovary and the problem of desire​

How the liberation of France shaped the modern world​

Christianity and the creation of England​

The West’s lust for liberty​

1975, the year that made the modern world​

How the Knights Templars conquered Christendom​

No more Napoleons: British grand strategy in the 19th century​

Why liberal democracies win total war

Why do we get the wrong leaders?

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