by Our Defence Correspondent ‘We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. For he, today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother.’ – William Shakespeare The process of
More than four decades after its publication, Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong’s The Brethren remains one of the most controversial books ever written about the United States Supreme Court. It is frequently
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by Nil The Palgrave Handbook of Terrorism in Africa, edited by Prof. Rohan Gunaratna and Dr. C. Nna-Emeka Okereke, represents a rigorous scholarly effort to dissect the complex and escalating phenomenon of
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by Durga Jay Heinrichs’ Aristotle’s Guide to Self-Persuasion (2025) is an audacious amalgam of classical rhetoric, pop culture exegesis, and self-help exhortation, positing that Aristotelian persuasive techniques can catalyse personal transformation. With
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by Nil Shunryu Suzuki’s Becoming Yourself: Teachings on the Zen Way of Life, curated by Jiryu Rutschman-Byler and Sojun Mel Weitsman, constitutes a limpid yet provocative compendium of Soto Zen teachings, distilled
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J. Randy Taraborrelli’s JFK: The Kennedy Years constitutes an ambitious, if occasionally florid, exegesis of John F. Kennedy’s life, with a particular emphasis on his personal entanglements and political ascendancy. This voluminous
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Jack El-Hai’s The Nazi and the Psychiatrist offers a perspicuous and disquieting exploration of the psychological interplay between Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, a US Army psychiatrist, and Hermann Göring, a preeminent Nazi
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by Durga Christopher de Bellaigue’s The Golden Throne: The Curse of a King is a masterful work of historical biography and narrative, weaving a vivid tapestry of the late Ottoman Empire under
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The chasm between the West and the Rest of the world has come to its apogee in these difficult days when US fighter jets fly above Isfahan and NATO countries suffer from
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by Durga Charles B. Jones’s “How Confucius Changed My Mind” is less a scholarly monograph than it is an intellectual conversion narrative. But beware: this is no light spiritual memoir. It is
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by Nil John Lisle’s “Project Mind Control” is a chilling exposé of America’s descent into moral ambiguity, cloaked in the language of national security. Through the enigmatic and unsettling figure of Sidney
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