Nicholas RankinOn 26 April 1937, in the rubble of the bombed city of Guernica, the world's press scrambled to submit their stories. But one journalist held back, and spent an...

Edward HermanWhile everyone is shocked and horrified by acts of terror, even more shocking is the rapid growth of a full-scale industry arising in the last decade to manufacture and...

W Bernard Carlson The definitive account of Tesla's life and workNikola Tesla was a major contributor to the electrical revolution that transformed daily life at the turn of the twentieth...

Vera BrittainFor nearly a decade I have wanted; with a growing sense of urgency; to write something which would show what the whole War and post-war period — roughly; from...

John Wagner This work uses words and strong images to provide a distinct and vivid image of today's Israel. The photographs, including landscapes, portraits and photojournalism, are juxtaposed with biblical...

Senior Master Sergeant Jack Brehm and Pete NelsonImagine jumping out of an aeroplane at 40, 000 feet, accelerating through the air until you reach terminal velocity at 127 mph, then...

Wilbur Smith On a continent of breathtaking beauty and bitter suffering, two vastly different cultures clashed, mingled, and recoiled. Here, amidst mist-shrouded mountains and gold-studded plateaus, ancient tribesmen lived close...

David S Wyman "Why Auschwitz Was Never Bombed," a chapter from this book, appeared in the May 1978 issue of Commentary and aroused a major controversy in the press here...

Gershom GorenbergThe untold story, based on groundbreaking original research, of the actions and inactions that created the Israeli settlements in the occupied territoriesAfter Israeli troops defeated the armies of Egypt,...

David BerlinskySimply put, an algorithm is a set of instructions-it's the code that makes computers run. A basic idea that proved elusive for hundreds of years and bent the minds...

Susan Jacoby Combining historical analysis with contemporary observation, Susan Jacoby dissects a new American cultural phenomenon—one that is at odds with our heritage of Enlightenment reason and with modern, secular...

Plutarch “Plutarch regularly shows that great leaders transcend their own purely material interests and petty, personal vanities. Noble ideals actually do matter, in government as in life.” ―Michael Dirda, Washington...