
BOOK REVIEW: 'Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print and Power'
Few barons of the Gilded Age offer so remarkable a story as press mogul Joseph Pulitzer. Born in Hungary in 1847 to middle-class Jewish parents, ...


Few barons of the Gilded Age offer so remarkable a story as press mogul Joseph Pulitzer. Born in Hungary in 1847 to middle-class Jewish parents, ...

It begins with a starving wolf chewing on the leg of a man slain in a village massacre in Sweden. And it ends with the wolf. Continue reading »

In 2008, brokerages skidded into bankruptcy, banks teetered on collapse, financial rogues lost their cover, and thousands and thousands of ordinary people lost their homes, their jobs, their cars and their credit ratings. Acres of ... Continue reading »

It is no criticism of author Nadine Cohodas to say that as I read "Princess Noire" there were times I wanted to close the book and go for a long walk. Ms. Cohodas is in ... Continue reading »

"The past shows unvaryingly that when a people's freedom disappears, it goes not with a bang, but in silence amid the comfort of being cared for. That is the dire peril in the present trend ... Continue reading »

More than a decade since Sir Isaiah Berlin died at age 88 in Oxford, loaded with honors and distinctions academic and other, debate still rages in intellectual circles as to just where he stands as ... Continue reading »

FEB 26, 2010
As financial institutions cascaded into scandal and collapse at the end of 2008, words like ...