Language Does Not Lie — Victor Klemperer
Victor Klemperer was a philologist, a German and a Jew in Dresden during the Nazi regime and the world war. As …
Victor Klemperer was a philologist, a German and a Jew in Dresden during the Nazi regime and the world war. As …
Do Not Obey in Advance This is the sentence which starts Timothy Snyder’s sadly necessary book, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons …
The government of Iceland fell the week we were in the country. It wasn’t apparent in the shops, streets or …
I’ve been away and tramping the back roads of Iceland for two weeks and am so far behind I can’t …
Long before William Styron became famous for The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967) and Sophie’s Choice (1979) he wrote a slim …
Massacre and genocide have been on the scroll of human history since cracked skulls left their sure signs, then in …
A History of Warfare, (1993) by John Keegan is a substantial and interesting book, not for those who want to …
Robert Sapolsky is a highly celebrated neuroendocrinologist, who has also spent years in the wild observing baboon troops, putting him in a …
Zone of Emptiness by the Japanese novelist Hiroshi Noma, when it was published in 1952 after years of military censorship, …
Liu Xiaobo, one of the world’s most courageous men, Chinese dissident, died of liver cancer in a Chinese hospital, died …
One great thing about long driving trips is the time available to listen to good books. On a trip to …
Dominique Moïsi’ s 2009 The Geopolitics of Emotion: How Cultures of Fear, Humiliation and Hope are Reshaping the World, is …