Descent Of Man Revisited

NY Times Sunday Book Review August 19, 2011 Seeds, Germs and Slaves By IAN MORRIS 1493 Uncovering the New World Columbus Created By Charles C. Mann Illustrated. 535 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $30.50. “There’s a chain of events in this best of all possible worlds,” Dr. Pangloss says at the end of Voltaire’s “Candide.” “If [...]

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Why did Japan surrender?Sixty-six years ago, we dropped a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima. Now, some historians say that’s not what ended the war.

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The Forgotten ChurchillThe man who stared down Hitler also helped create the modern welfare state

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By Gregory Paul From Jesus’ socialism to capitalistic Christianity A truly strange thing has happened to American Christianity. A set of profound contradictions have developed within modern conservative Christianity, big and telling inconsistencies that have long slipped under the radar of public knowledge, and are only now beginning to be explicitly noted by critics of [...]

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The History of Torture—Why We Can’t Give It Up: Some 150 years ago, the West all but abandoned torture. It has returned with a vengeance In 1849, pacifists felt history was on their side. A series of idealistic revolutions had shaken autocratic regimes across Europe the previous year, extending universal voting rights in many countries [...]

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