Redefining Strategy in 20th Century Britain Review of The British Way of War: Julian Corbett and the Battle for a National Strategy by Andrew Lambert (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2021)
Financing Salvation in Late Antiquity Review of The Ransom of the Soul: Afterlife and Wealth in Early Western Christianity, by Peter Brown (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2015.)
The Nature of World War II World War II was a total war—a mobilization of nearly all human and natural resources.
Aurangzeb: Mughal Emperor … whose intolerance instigated the communal violence that plagues South Asia today. To Hindu nationalists, he is the …
The Anatomy Murders Review of The Anatomy Murders, by Lisa Rosner (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009)
When the Soviets Domesticated the West Review of To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture, by Eleonory Gilburd (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018) … readers and viewers, works of Western culture gained new meanings and acquired new lives in the Soviet Union. Drawing …
The Bible as a Political Tool … a set of empty and banal cliches, divorced from context and meaning, ready to be deployed at will. Moore is simply the …