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The Pulitzer-winning reporter traces the history of efforts to shift taxpayer funds from public to private schools.

Richard Landes The following article was published by MERIA: Middle East Review of International Affairs, Vol. 21, No. 2 (Summer 2017). For some reason it is not available at that site, so I post it here.  Caliphator: one who believes that in our day, Islam will triumph over all other religions

History is famously full of conflicts celebrated by the victors and forgotten by the losers. But some are ignored on all sides. The Franco-Prussian War is one of the latter, but it is now excavated by Rachel Chrastil's Bismarck's War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe.

Sponsored by the Hemispehric Institute, “Coral & Ash: A Symposium on the Work of Nadia Huggins” will take place on Wednesday, October 11, 2023, from 3:00 to 9:00pm, at New York University’s King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center (KJCC, 53 Washington Square South, New York, New York). Artist Talk and Curator’s Gallery Tour: From…

 BERKELEY — Allow me to offer high praise for The Civic Bargain: How Democracy Survives, the new book by the independent scholar Brook Manville and Josiah Ober of Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. While the entire book is well-written and insightful, its historical overview is a veritable treasure trove for anyone who wants to understand the events leading up to our