Let’s get right to it: War seems at once unthinkable and inevitable, one of the constants of human history that proceeds from the irrational darkness of the id. Apes may be the only animals that truly war, but the impulse seems encrypted in our genes. ...

And while what survives to us is mostly the great deeds of those kings and leaders, there is also more than enough evidence to show that humans have a singular talent for acting stupidly, particularly in matters of governance. In , Barbara Tuchman...

I don't remember which of my teachers suggested I read it but I do remember what an immense and long-lasting impact it had on me. The thing I recall most vividly is the crowds of cheering people all across Europe celebrating he onset of a war that was...

Running to some 850 pages, the book is, formally speaking, a mismatch at two levels. Explaining that his motive in writing it was to ‘help Americans understand key developments in Asia’, Vogel clearly aimed to win a wide public audience. But its sheer...

The evening stars are Jupiter, Uranus, Venus and Neptune. Those born on this date are under the sign of Aquarius. They include Franklin D. Roosevelt , 32nd president of the United States and only one elected to four consecutive terms, in 1882;...

In 1936 she became a journalist at The Nation, which her father had bought; year later, she covered the Spanish Civil War for that periodical. Married in 1939 to a physician who worked in a military hospital abroad during World War II, Barbara Tuchman...