Arthur Herman, author of the New York Times bestseller How the Scots Invented the Modern World, discusses his new book Gandhi and Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age.

Dr. Herman will discuss the forty-year rivalry between these two political icons, and reveal how it led...

If Erdogan believes it is up to any state and any region to choose its own name, then no longer should the Turkish government complain when diplomats and officials speak of the Kurdistan Regional Government, Iraqi Kurdistan, or even South Kurdistan.

War is either such an evil in itself that the United States should withdraw from its dominant world position or greater causes—such as advancing human freedom—can make war necessary. Two books on justice in war implicitly probe this profound choice.

In one of his last acts as prime minister, Barham Salih symbolically launched the Aras Publishing House’s book fair in Erbil. The event featured important Kurdish classics, translations of Western works, as well as children’s books. Book fairs are important.

The Times is a great newspaper--the only remaining consistently reliable news outlet in this country, and probably the best in the world. Thankfully it has the integrity to wash its dirty laundry in public. That should make for quality journalism going forward.

President Obama seems eager for people to know he feels aggrieved. The president has always had the gift of self-pity and blame-shifting. If you hate the job, don't run.

Does the chemical used to make non-stick frying pans endanger the lives of the workers who make it? Facing a daily assault of über-opinionated stories on the web, the public has developed low expectations of journalists. But we continue to have high standards for science reporters wrestling with information that can impact our health and safety. Sadly, such lofty expectations aren't always met.

We hear so often about Muslims as victims of abuse in the West and combatants in the Arab Spring’s fight against tyranny. But, in fact, a wholly different kind of war is underway—an unrecognized battle costing thousands of lives. Christians are being killed in the Islamic world because of their religion. It is a rising genocide that ought to provoke global alarm.