Review

Karl Marx: His Life and Environment

Few minds have loomed larger than that of Karl Marx in the development of modern philosophy, economics, and politics. Despite…

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Mrs. Freud: A Novel

Despite the recent biography of Martha Freud by Katja Behling, and the numerous books about her husband, Sigmund Freud, little…

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Einstein and Oppenheimer: The Meaning of Genius

Einstein and Oppenheimer examines the lives of two of the 20th century’s most consequential physicists. The book is not a…

2 weeks ago

Charles Darwin, Geologist

Many of us know the story of how Charles Darwin (1809–1882) took a five-year voyage aboard The Beagle to the…

2 weeks ago

Stephen Hawking: A Biography

Kristine Larsen begins her biography of Stephen Hawking with a central question: how has a theoretical physicist known for “esoteric…

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A Worse Place Than Hell: How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation

John Matteson, Distinguished Professor of English at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for…

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Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design

Many of the ideas brilliantly and compellingly explored in Why Darwin Matters made a showing in certain chapters of three…

3 weeks ago

Milton: Poet, Pamphleteer, and Patriot

John Milton (1608-1674), regarded as one of the greatest English poets, thought by some to rival Shakespeare, was a late…

3 weeks ago

Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America with Einstein’s Brain

When Jack Kerouac drove into “the great American night,” then poured its manic pace into On the Road, he created…

3 weeks ago

Kant’s Theory of Evil: An Essay on the Dangers of Self-love and the Aprioricity of History

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…

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