At the height of the Enlightenment, eight million slaves were shipped from Africa to the New World.
Japan's other contribution to the World Series, apart from Daisuke Matsuzaka and Hideki Okajima, is haiku.
From an unremarkable middle-class household came a mass murderer. How could this have happened, asks his grand-niece.
A history of American children at play raises disturbing questions about how we treat our kids.
A well argued defence of the most important work mothers engage in: raising happy, well-balanced children.
An historian has dusted off and updated America's pantheon of portraits in courage.
A champion of the Enlightenment discovers some dark and dingy corners in its contemporary version.
Acts of love and desperation make Khaled Hosseini's second novel an appealing but morally ambiguous work.
One out of every 25 children was conceived in a test-tube in some countries. Why aren't we worried?
Unlike rivers, history is not compelled to flow downhill, as the careers of Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher and John Paul II show.
Long before the US acquired vital security interests there, Americans were wandering through the lands of the Arabian Nights.
As the war on terror grinds on, there are ethical lessons to be learned from the fire-bombing of German and Japanese cities during World War II in which hundreds of thousands of civilians perished.
A brilliant exploration of one of the great monsters of history.
A distinguished philosopher unravels the thought of one of the 20th century's great women.
A crusading physician deplores ideological double standards about health care for students.
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