MUSSOLINI’S ITALY:
Life Under the
Fascist Dictatorship,
1915–1945.
By R. J. B. Bosworth.
Penguin Press.
692 pp. $35
It's wrong—and dangerous—to compare the Iraq War to Vietnam.
WHO CONTROLS THE INTERNET?
Illusions of a
Borderless World.
By Jack Goldsmith
and Tim Wu.
Oxford Univ. Press.
272 pp. $28
Nepalese democracy has foundered and its political tempests have become increasingly turbulent.
There's growing distrust of political parties in many advanced democracies, not just the United States.
Opinion polls seem to influence the media as much as the politicians.
One simple, time-honored solution to convince aging justices to leave the high court: offer them more money to step down.
There were reasons why 17th-century Venice was the birthplace of modern opera.
Sandra Scham on The Great Transformation