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Make it Stick
To most of us, learning something “the hard way” implies wasted time and effort. Good teaching, we believe, should be creatively tailored to the different learning styles of …
The Economics of Inequality
Thomas Piketty—whose Capital in the Twenty-First Century pushed inequality to the forefront of public debate—wrote The Economics of Inequality as an introduction to the conceptual …
Mansfield Park
Jane Austen’s most ambitious novel, Mansfield Park, has always generated debate. Austen herself noted that debate when she conducted a reader survey, recording her acquaintances’ …
The Axial Age and Its Consequences
The first classics in human history—the early works of literature, philosophy, and theology to which we have returned throughout the ages—appeared in the middle centuries of the …
Religions of the Ancient World
Materials from ten different cultures and traditions that arose and developed in Mediterranean religions are presented side by side in an incisive study of the complexities of the …
Critique of Forms of Life
For many liberals, the question “Do others live rightly?” feels inappropriate. Liberalism seems to demand a follow-up question: “Who am I to judge?” Peaceful coexistence, in this …
Expulsions
Soaring income inequality and unemployment, expanding populations of the displaced and imprisoned, accelerating destruction of land and water bodies: today’s socioeconomic and …
Neither Settler nor Native
Shortlisted for the British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural UnderstandingMaking the radical argument that the nation-state was born of colonialism, this book calls us to …
The People’s Zion
In The People’s Zion, Joel Cabrita tells the transatlantic story of Southern Africa’s largest popular religious movement, Zionism. It began in Zion City, a utopian community …
China’s Good War
A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the YearA Spectator Book of the YearChinese leaders once tried to suppress memories of their nation’s brutal experience during World War II. Now they …
The English Conquest of Jamaica
In 1654, England’s Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell conceived a plan of breathtaking ambition: the conquest of Spain’s vast American empire. As the first phase of his Western Design, …