The new United States of Europe has more people, more wealth, and more tradethan the United States of America. Yet Americans have largely ignored the change in Europe. They do so at some risk, for Europe’s goal is to rival and surpass America—and one of the powerful motives urging Europeans toward that goal is the disdain many of them now share for America.
Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois were pioneers in the quest for African-American equality in America. They were also bitter rivals. What’s sometimes overlooked is that their years of public confrontation were preceded by a decade of cautious mutual regard.
What two eloquent Frenchmen, Voltaire and Montesquieu, had to say in the 18th century about the forces that sustain or shatter great powers remains surprisingly relevant.
Higher education has turned into big business, perfecting their institutional brand.
Researchers cannot agree on what constitutes intelligence.
Imagine a breezy, palm-fringed island in the Indian Ocean. There’s no money, no Internet or TV, and a single phone line to the outside world. Only a handful of people are allowed to visit each year. Tempted? The author was, and he tells what he found.
For centuries, Russia’s intelligentsia occupied a unique place in the life of its country, flickering like the light of a candle in the dark. Now that the worst of the darkness has been disspelled, will the light vanish too?
The 1960s are remembered as a time of upheaval in America. But those subversive "Sixties" aren't the whole story.
Democracy's stunning advance has bypassed the Islamic world.