What’s the antidote to the global anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) threat on college campuses? For Joel Greenberg, a…
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LONG BEFORE THERE was the Big Apple, there was the Red Apple. Constantinople, the “Second Rome” capital of the Byzantine…
Bolívar: American LiberatorBy Marie Arana(Simon & Schuster, 603 pages, $35) Although he stood only five and a half feet tall…
Righteous Republic: The Political Foundations of Modern IndiaBy Ananya Vajpeyi(Harvard University Press, 342 pages, $39.95) SOMEWHERE BACK IN THE 1980s, at…
Silent HouseBy Orhan Pamuk(Alfred A. Knopf, 334 pages, $26.95) About halfway through Silent House, Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk has one of…
Once upon a time, old friends John Hay (personal secretary to Abraham Lincoln and later secretary of state for both…