Should we make classics history?

FOUNDATIONS ROME BEFORE ROME The legends that ...

I AM A HISTORY PROFESSOR AT ONE OF THE UNIVERSITIES under attack by the Trump Administration. I am also a flag-waving patriot with an abiding love of the U.S. Those two statements might seem surprisin

“Hands of Saint Dominic” by Albrecht Dürer, 1506; ...

Statue of Spinoza near Amsterdam’s city hall ...

What makes a novel of ideas?

This impressive book – based on an astonishingly wide-ranging reading, and written with adamantine clarity – deals far more with the critics than with capitalism. These critics fall roughly into three