History

Roderick Fitts reviews Dare to Stand Alone: The Story of Charles Bradlaugh, Atheist and Republican, by Bryan Niblett.

As part of the United Nations’ general support for murderous regimes, one of its agencies—The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization—has granted the Palestinian Liberation Organization full membership in UNESCO. In response, U.S. officials have indicated that the United States will cut off all funding for UNESCO. But this ignores…

Daniel Wahl reviews Crashing Through: The Extraordinary True Story of the Man Who Dared to See, by Robert Kurson.

John Cerasuolo reviews Gauntlet: Five Friends, 20,000 Enemy Troops, and the Secret That Could Have Changed the Course of the Cold War, by Barbara Masin.

Daniel Wahl reviews The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe, by Peter Godwin.

On July 4, 1776, the Founders declared to the world not only that the colonies would henceforth be independent from Britain, but also, and more fundamentally, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and…

Daniel Wahl reviews Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory, by Ben Macintyre.

Burgess Laughlin reviews Anti-intellectualism in American Life, by Richard Hofstadter, and The Age of American Unreason, by Susan Jacoby.

Examines this defining work of yet another man of the mind, showing, among other things, the remarkable scope and integration of Durant’s multivolume world history.

Shows how this man of the mind designed and strove to develop a city of technology, industry, and commerce like none other to this day.