Celebrated Western scholar Juan Cole situates the birth of Islam in the middle of an apocalyptic showdown between Rome Published Jun 23, 2019 07:00am

A book delineates the overwhelming culture of the subcontinent in stunning detail, but fails in probing deeper into the Published Mar 31, 2019 06:59am

A real-life tale about reinventing coffee works as a window into Yemeni culture and the crisis that it’s caught Published Feb 03, 2019 08:32am

A critique of liberalism from a conservative perspective argues that there is an unresolved contradiction within it Published Oct 14, 2018 07:11am

Journalist Yasha Levine’s book suggests that surveillance and thought control are not exceptional — they are part of the Published Jul 29, 2018 07:31am

Franklin Foer asks: what happens to society when journalism is reduced to little more than tabloid fare? Published Mar 25, 2018 06:15am

What does it mean to translate a majestic religious text into another language? A new book offers food for thought Published Dec 03, 2017 07:08am

Could the shattering of Greece’s economy in 2015 be a deliberate attempt to maintain imbalance in the European Union? Published Sep 10, 2017 07:04am

An exploration of how ‘Jewish Christianity’ bypassed Roman Christianity to link with Islam Published Jun 18, 2017 07:23am