History buffs will be able to stroll close to the spot where legend says Julius Caesar met his bloody end, when Rome authorities open a new... Read More
A giant predator that lived 240 million years ago was decapitated with a single, brutal bite from a deadlier creature, scientists have... Read More
A submersible craft carrying five people in the area of the Titanic wreck in the North Atlantic has been missing since Sunday, setting off a... Read More
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — Uruguay will melt down a bronze eagle found on a sunken World War II-era German destroyer off its coast 13 years... Read More
An implicit question haunts this illuminating and richly detailed memoir by Michael G. Vickers, the senior intelligence official at the... Read More
“Someday science may have the existence of mankind in its power,” the American intellectual Henry Adams wrote in 1862, “and... Read More
Did Nazis love yoga? That is the provocative title of one chapter in the recently published book Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy... Read More
An acquaintance of mine, a rising star among lawyers who practice before the Supreme Court, asked me what I was reading these days. When I... Read More
World War II was the greatest conflict in history, carried out on a scale almost impossible to grasp. In many ways it was the first modern war, in which airpower played a vital role both on land and at sea, but many actions were ultimately won by the determination and grit of the foot soldier. Here\'s the whole vast panoramic epic of the Second World War presented in 20 of its most significant bat... Read More
After the clashes and white supremacist terror attack in Charlottesville, Virginia, the latest dimension of our unfolding national meltdown is over monuments to the Confederacy. In retaliation for the violence in Charlottesville, demonstrators pulled down a Confederate statue in Durham, several cities in the North quickly yanked theirs down, and several other places are considering the same thing.... Read More
In the annals of American constitutional history, it is practically totemic to say that war makes for hard decisions and limitations on otherwise acceptable speech. The American Civil War was not the first conflict to bring up the question of free speech in times of war–the Alien and Seditions Acts in 1798 were–but the nation’s greatest drama raised novel and significant constitu... Read More
