A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union—showing how Gorbachev’s misguided reforms led to its demise

A new approach to the challenges surrounding artificial intelligence that argues for assessing AI actions as if they came from a human being

Ian Buruma explores the life and death of Baruch Spinoza, the Enlightenment thinker whose belief in freedom of thought and speech resonates in our own time

Presents a controversial view of the origins of fascism, locating them in the eighteenth century with the advent of the Anti-Enlightenment, a far earlier date than most historians. This book contends that J G Herder, Edmund Burke, and Joseph de Maistre can be connected to the origins of the Anti-Enlightenment.

A reappraisal of the tumultuous Partition and how it ignited long-standing animosities between India and Pakistan

Offering an introduction to the New Testament, the author presents an historical study of the origins of Christianity by analyzing the literature of the earliest Christian movements. Focusing mainly on the New Testament, he also considers non-Biblical Christian writings of the era.

A penetrating look into the extreme plutocracy Vladimir Putin has created and its implications for Russia's future