Few minds have loomed larger than that of Karl Marx in the development of modern philosophy, economics, and politics. Despite…
Despite the recent biography of Martha Freud by Katja Behling, and the numerous books about her husband, Sigmund Freud, little…
Einstein and Oppenheimer examines the lives of two of the 20th century’s most consequential physicists. The book is not a…
Many of us know the story of how Charles Darwin (1809–1882) took a five-year voyage aboard The Beagle to the…
Kristine Larsen begins her biography of Stephen Hawking with a central question: how has a theoretical physicist known for “esoteric…
John Matteson, Distinguished Professor of English at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for…
Many of the ideas brilliantly and compellingly explored in Why Darwin Matters made a showing in certain chapters of three…
John Milton (1608-1674), regarded as one of the greatest English poets, thought by some to rival Shakespeare, was a late…
When Jack Kerouac drove into “the great American night,” then poured its manic pace into On the Road, he created…
Pablo Muchnik’s Kant’s Theory of Evil provides a defense of the continuing relevance of Immanuel Kant’s moral philosophy by systematically addressing interpretive…