In America, 2.3 million people—a population about the size of Houston’s, the country’s fourth-largest city—live behind bars. Sick Justice explores the economic, social, and political forces that hijacked the criminal justice system to create...
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Mill is usually classified as one of liberalism’s most strident defenders. What is less well known, however, is that Mill became increasingly open to socialist forms of economic organisation in his later life — not least in his Chapters on...
Since he was a small boy, Mosab Hassan Yousef has had an inside view of the deadly terrorist group Hamas. The oldest son of Sheikh Hassan Yousef, a founding member of Hamas and its most popular leader, young Mosab assisted his father for years in...
A chilling, skillfully delineated account based on newly released Russian documentation that reveals Stalin’s true motives—and the extent of his enduring commitment to expanding the Soviet empire—during the years in which he seemingly...
Stalin: The Enduring Legacy considers the ‘Man of Steel’ in a manner that will outrage dogmatists of both Left and Right.
Stalinist Russia is reassessed as a state that transcended Marxism, and proceeded on a nationalist and imperial path...
Five noted writers and thinkers profile five of the world's leaders. For some of us, these leaders are heroes; for others, villains; for all of us—strongmen.
In this short book, five brilliant artists and writers confront five strongmen:
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The “Long Telegram” was sent by George Kennan from the United States Embassy in Moscow to Washington, where it was received on February 22nd 1946. The telegram was prompted by US enquiries about Soviet behaviour, especially with regards to their...
When, in 1997, the International Atomic Energy Agency unanimously elected Mohamed ElBaradei as its next Director General, few observers could have forecast the dramatic role he would play over the next 12 years. Certainly, the stage onto which...
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Зачем государству атомная бомба?
Зачем нам оружие, которым мы не можем воспользоваться? И к тому же это оружие, которым мы не...