Black Is Black
Khalil Mohammad makes the case that bad science links black people and crime.
Back in the Day
A collection of 30 issues
Is It Good for the Jews?
Jerry Z. Muller hacks away at the overgrowth on a well-worn path.
The Judeophobic Virus
Historian Robert S. Wistrich’s gargantuan tome on anti-Semitism takes us beyond the present day.
Dateline: Berlin, 1948
How far back must one go to find an American act of national decency? Seventy years, it turns out.
The Hunger Historian
An Irish scholar assesses “Famine,” suggesting we need no longer fear this horseman.
The Dustbin of History
Two presidential biographies of fallen idols, Grant and Wilson. Are they relevant today?
Eyeful in Gaza
War reportage cartoonist Joe Sacco dusts off an ignored story of massacre.
Founding Fathers, Sisters, and Cousins
Crediting new faces with birthing the U.S.A.
The Shower Scene That Changed the World
Where would America be without “Psycho?”
The Original Trotskyite 2.0
One of two new biographies of the influential Soviet revolutionary, Leon Trotsky.