Intellectual freedom lags far behind market reform in China.
Sierra Leone continues to struggle with its colonial legacy.
Saudi Arabia is having a difficult time curtailing the Internet.
At 100, Leni Riefenstahl--"Hitler's filmmaker"--is indeed her own monument, the diva who won't go away.
Essays
With the debate about globalization focused on economics and politics, Amy Chua raised an alarm in our Autumn 2002 issue about the dangerous escalation of ethnic tensions in many countries caused by the triumph of free-market democracy. Chua later wrote Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother (2011).
Belva Lockwood's campaign for the presidency in 1884 may have been quixotic, but it was historic, too, and as spirited and principled as the candidate herself.
The united Germany has lived up neither to its own hopes nor to the fears and expectations of its neighbors.
Gaddis was a great American novelist, who failed to attract a great American audience. Perhaps that's to his credit.
THE SHIELD OF ACHILLES: War, Peace, and the Course of History. By Philip Bobbitt. Knopf. 919 pp. $40