Ideas and Policies

On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization

The Safavid Empire: The Rise, Fall, and Enduring Legacy of the Dynasty That Made Modern Iran

Fateful Hours The Collapse of the Weimar Republic

The Hour of the Predator: Encounters with the Autocrats and Tech Billionaires Taking Over the World

A CHILLING ASSESSMENT OF THE DISINTEGRATING WORLD ORDER: the rise of autocratic regimes, erosion of traditional diplomacy, and growing influence of tech billionaires and unregulated AI

Where the River Dies | The Tragic Story of China's Uyghurs

Private Power and Democracy's Decline: How to Make Capitalism Support Democracy

Why does unregulated, democratic free market capitalism threaten - and what to do about it?

The Orange Man: How Trumpism Revealed the Real Face of America

How to Test Negative for Stupid

One of the most distinctive and funny politicians, Senator John Kennedy (the one from Louisiana)—hailed by Politico as “America’s most quotable Senator”—offers his perceptive (and hilarious) takes on the ridiculousness of political life in this scathingly witty takedown of Washington and its elite denizens.

Anger, Fear, Domination

“Politics is different now because something awful has been unleashed. William A. Galston defines this awful thing in his fantastic new book, Anger, Fear, Domination.”—David Brooks, New York Times

The Great Divide: America's Political Conflict: Why We're So Divided - and What Can We Do About It?

Tired of political chaos? Wondering how we got here—and where we go next?

China and Russia: Four Centuries of Conflict and Concord

A compelling, expansive history of the relationship between China and Russia, from the seventeenth century to the present

Era of India From Impoverished Colony to the World's Third-Largest Economy | A History of Colonialism, Wealth Transfer and India’s Economic Ascendance

Using empirical data and deeply researched documentary evidence, Merchant's approach answers these questions in an engaging narrative of how India's ascent from a poor British colony in 1947 to the world's third-largest economy by 2030 will reshape the world order in the next quarter-century

Kurdish mountain The identity struggle before the genocide...the struggle of princes - sheikhs, shahs and sultans

Announce it loudly! ..28 images of a committed scientist

Being Sudanese: Manifestations of Tassiti, the land of arches, in the spaces of modernity

The Armed Prophet | Trotsky 1879-1921

Wake up and live

Radical separation of powers...the history of Islamic constitutionalism

War or peace? United States and China 2026-2049

The Dark Horse: Harnessing the Potential of War and Life

It is a policy of deception... Britain and Palestine 1914-1939

House of Chaos: How the US Congress turned into a political circus

The Portuguese in the Arabian Gulf, the struggle for sea lanes and signs of European hegemony 1507-1622.

The spectator and the mediator... readings on the genealogy of power and people