Walter Lippmann circa 1930. His influential newspaper column, 'Today and Tomorrow' was syndicated from early 1930s to the 1960s, and was awarded Pulitzer Prizes in 1958 and 1962. (Everett ...

Even for a television talk show, it was an extraordinary claim. During his January 1, 2000, end-of-the-millennium broadcast, "McLaughlin Group" host John McLaughlin declared that his award for "the ...

A pair of rich, illuminating studies epitomise a new wave of thinking about the Freud wars and the history of analysis If Freud, as Auden wrote in his 1939 elegy, is “a whole climate of opinion / ...

The publisher seems not to have noticed, but Robert Irwin’s Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography (Princeton University Press) happens to appear on the 60th anniversary of the first complete English ...

‘I believe the Reformation to have been the greatest incident in English history; the root and source of the expansive force which has spread the Anglo-Saxon race over the globe, and imprinted the ...

JELLY’S LATEST JAM: Jelly Roll Morton invented jazz -- or so he often claimed, with much flair. As a piano player in New Orleans during the first decade of the 20th century, he was certainly present ...

Insights into Machiavelli’s Personal and Intellectual Development. This book represents a valuable contribution to understanding Machiavelli, by linking his ideas with the life and context in which ...

John A. Hall concludes his account of Ernest Gellner by observing that his outlook on the world was austere. “But therein lies its attraction,” he goes on. “Not much real comfort for our woes is on ...

This biography should revive interest in one of the great (and misunderstood) theorists of international relations. Frei traces Morgenthau's life from his birth into a German-Jewish family to his ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...