I'm delighted to report that my Hoover colleague (and emeritus professor at Cornell), Barry Strauss, will be guest-blogging this week about this new book of his. Here's the publisher's summary: A new ...

The Roman Empire grew over a long period of time from basically a political unit in Italy to the entire Mediterranean basin, but it took a lot of time.... It really grew out of a number of different ...

Benjamin Balthaser teaches multi-ethnic U.S. literature at Indiana University in South Bend. He is the author of Citizens of the Whole World: Anti-Zionism and the Cultures of the American Jewish Left ...

Samira Mehta receives funding from the Henry Luce Foundation for a project called Jews of Color: Histories and Futures. “Tradition!” rings out the opening line of “Fiddler on the Roof,” the Broadway ...