Features

How the West Really Lost God
A new look at secularization.
Mary Eberstadt

Terrorism, the Military, and the Courts
What kind of process is due detainees?
Benjamin Wittes

The Bomb Under the Abaya
Women who become suicide bombers.
Judith Miller

Strong Society, Weak State
The social dimension of state-building.
Lawrence Chickering, Edward Haley

Books

Spinoza's Religion
Peter Berkowitz on Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew who Gave us Modernity by Rebecca Goldstein.
Peter Berkowitz

Soothing China
Lloyd Richardson on The China Fantasy: How Our Leaders Explain Away Chinese Repression by James Mann
Lloyd Richardson

China's Dirty Little Secret
Samantha Sault on Will the Boat Sink in the Water? The Life of China’s Peasants by Chen Guidi and Wu Chuntao.
Samantha Sault

The Birth of Brit Art
Henrik Bering on Hogarth, France and British Art by Robin Simon and Hogarth by Mark Hallett and Christine Riding.
Henrik Bering