Corruption, one of the most pernicious threats to global security and prosperity, thrives because it hides in plain sight. A provocative new book by Laurence Cockcroft helps us get around the thorny question of how to define it.

A new Netflix documentary about the Arab Spring is tailor-made for a Western audience. It all-too-easily glides over some of the thornier realities of today’s Egypt.

The life of Thomas More, as cast in literary amber in both Britain and America, has remarkable appeal to diverse audiences with incommensurate passions.

The first full-length biography of Jim Henson is not all that it could be, but fosters new appreciation for an American creative genius.

Professor William E. Dodd, FDR’s envoy to Germany from 1933 to 1937, got curiously lost in the postwar historical shuffle, despite his early warnings about rising evil in Hitler’s Berlin. His story is newly relevant, and three very different books, read together, explain why.

An untenable assertion sets the stage for a trend-spotter’s insights.

There’s a popular feeling in the air that America has become decadent. Contrasting Harry Potter to the Hunger Games shows what a difference a decade can make.

Americans define personal success in different ways, but certainly no one strives for mediocrity. Maybe this is why Tyler Cowen’s latest book is getting people angry.

John Coltrane's stunning musical output in 1965 is open to deeper examination, thanks to a new studio archive release.

The old debate between W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington lives on, but the terms have been flipped on their heads.