The Russian Empire (1721-1917)
The Russian Empire, which lasted from 1721 to 1917, spanned an enormous territory of almost 14 million square miles (36 million sq km) across the eastern portion…
The Russian Empire, which lasted from 1721 to 1917, spanned an enormous territory of almost 14 million square miles (36 million sq km) across the eastern portion…
The original Amber Room was in the Catherine Palace: it was a chamber with amber panels backed with gold leaf and mirrors. It was created from 1701…
The Russian Empire was one of the largest empires in the world, spanning almost 14 square miles (36 million sq km) across eastern portion of Europe and…
In the summer issue of 1993 the journal Foreign Affairs published an article by Samuel Huntington under the title “The Clash of Civilizations?” whose themes he enlarged…
A Torch Kept Lit: Great Lives of the Twentieth Century. William F. Buckley with James Rosen, ed. New York: Crown Forum, 2016. James Rosen provides the…
Introduction The American debate regarding the policy needed to combat the dangers posed by immigration from nations who are currently hotbeds of Islamic radicalization is presently being…
If you have the privilege, or assigned job, teaching a course on the "History of Political Thought," you might think that most students of political science would…
Political Realism and Wisdom. András Lánczi. New York: Palgrave MacMillan Press, 2015. András Lánczi’s latest English publication, Political Realism and Wisdom, consists of seven chapters, bookended…
Physician, playwright, philander, short story author, and prison reform advocate, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904) lived a life full of paradoxes. He had a religious education but became…
It is a truism to note that there are multiple cosmopolitanisms. In my view, cosmopolitanism is a genus containing species of rather different sorts. Cosmopolitanism has marked…
What Is Enlightenment? Continuity or Rupture in the Wake of the Arab Uprisings. Mohammed D. Cherkaoui, ed. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2016. Among the three projects of…
The North American High Tory Tradition. Ron Dart. New York: American Anglican Press, 2016. In his 1965 book, Lament for a Nation, political philosopher described the…
One of the continual challenges that confront critics of Chekhov’s Three Sisters is to locate a theme that unites the various elements in the play. The initial…
February 10, 2007: A crowd of over 15,000 gathered at the Illinois Old State Capitol Building, where Abraham Lincoln had given his famous “House Divided” speech, anxiously…