Neo-Cognoscenti: Global Affairs and Culture

This week, hundreds of people lined up at Midtown Comics in New York to purchase the first edition of Marvel's new Spiderman issue, feat...

The Oscar-winner "Crash" begins with this quote from Don Cheadle's character, setting up the tone and message of this metaphor...

Tony Judt, possibly one of the best political historians of our time, likes to remind us that Austria never exorcized its Nazi past. As Hitl...

To understand Modern Turkey, one must examine the mentality of the country’s founder and first strongman, Kemal Ataturk, and his legacy in T...

One of the best lessons of George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia (1938) is the fratricidal viciousness of the left's internal squabbl...

I am presenting next Friday at the DGA Conference and wanted to try out some of the ideas from my presentation here with you. The following ...

Alan Dershowitz, arguably one of the most famous faculty members of Harvard Law School, must enjoy being unpopular. In 2002, he began advoca...