Douglas Hofstadter’s 1979 book, Gödel, Escher, Bach, is now joined by I Am a Strange Loop.

Klaus Schwab’s most recent extravaganza was “lite” on America. What a difference a year can make.

Notes on the pratfalls of democracy promotion.

Amy Tan and Dana Gioia plumb the power of storytelling within the American immigrant experience.

Unprecedented intellectual ferment in the Muslim world is likely to have a happier ending than many Westerners suppose.

Bolling Air Force Base can be a spooky place.

Four new books try to strike a balance between fear and complacency over America’s three million Muslim citizens.

Marking the 20th anniversary of Ronald Reagan's "Tear Down This Wall" speech.

Boris Yeltsin climbed a tank Though his breath from vodka strongly stank. Just goes to show that bravery’s call May be heard by one and all. David Halberstam met his fate Meeting Y.A. Tittle for a date. The best and the brightest all pass away, The errors greater for their sway. Nobody’s perfect, to be […]

While commentators like Charles Krauthammer and John Bolton have charged that Britain capitulated to Iran and handed them a humiliating victory in obtaining the release of the 15 British Marines last week (when has Krauthammer ever not cried “Munich!” in response to an act of diplomacy?), it would appear that something more like the opposite […]