The War We Refuse to Remember … In the process, Americans also reimagined and remade the meaning of their revolution and their nation. The aftermath …
After Midnight Review of Midnight’s Descendants: A History of South Asia Since Partition, by John Keay (New York: Basic Books, 2014)
“Allese Rondade”, that is to say, ‘Shoot!’” Review of Thundersticks: Firearms and the Violent Transformation of Native America, by David J. Silverman (Cambridge: Belknap Press, 2016)
Diet for a Large Planet … had the finest system of grain inspection in the world, meaning it was trustworthy. They also had telegraphs …
Top Ten Origins: From Bollywood to Indywood … The film explores questions of identity, justice, beauty, meaning, and death through the stories of an experimental …
The Catholic Church and Sexual Abuse, Then and Now … solicitation as an “impious and heinous crime” and a “plague” infecting those whose job it was to heal others. … direction of women in the traditional confessional—meaning separated physically from them.” It was an old …
A Sheep in Sheep’s Clothing Review of Clement Attlee: The Man Who Made Modern Britain, by John Bew (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2017).