Saddam Hussein’s Iraq shared many of its worst features with the Soviet empire, combining institutionalized political tyranny and the distortions of a dysfunctional, command economy. Consequently, in the aftermath of Saddam’s removal from power, many of the same problems and dilemmas that beset post-Communist Europe during the 1990s—ethnic tensions, economic...

The best European tourist sights are those where you can see the present layered upon the past.

Review of In the Wake of the Plague--The Black Death and the World it Made.

The West may have been pivotally important, but has it been too much at center stage?

New gender feminists have given feminism a bad name; women who care about women's issues must find their way back to the classical feminism of the first wave.