Jonathan Sperber’s is among the first major Marx biographies of the post-1989 era. This may help to explain its perpetual refrain that Marx now belongs to a bygone age. But was the nineteenth century really that long ago?
May 18, 2012
The Border Crossers
From Enemy to Brother: The Revolution in Catholic Teaching on the Jews, 1933–1965 By John Connelly (Harvard University Press, 376 pp., $35) Across the violent years of the twentieth century, the Roman Catholic Church underwent a trial of conscience that ultimately brought about a radical transformation in its official doctrine regarding the Jews. Church tradition had long held that the Jewish people were abandoned by God and condemned to wander the Earth, their religion nullified by the new covenant with Christ.
September 29, 2011
The Guilty
This past April marked the fiftieth anniversary of the trial of Adolf Eichmann. The trial represented a true watershed in the postwar struggle to come
January 11, 2011
Up from Zero Hour
Jürgen Habermas ranks today as the single most important public intellectual in all of Continental Europe. But he is also a formidable philosopher who
February 09, 2010
Helter Skelter, German Style
This excellent book reconstructs the political agonies of the German Left from the sixties to the present day. The detail is extraordinary, the tempo
