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How Christianity Spread: the 1% and the 99% in Ancient Rome
Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350–550 ADBy Peter Brown (Princeton University Press, 759 pp., $39.95) READ MORE >>
The Battle that Birthed the Middle East
The Origins of Foreigners
Rethinking the Other in AntiquityBy Erich S. Gruen (Princeton University Press, 415 pp., $39.50) READ MORE >>
The Universalist
Before 2013 begins, catch up on the best of 2012. From now until the New Year, we will be re-posting some of The New Republic’s most thought-provoking pieces of the year. Enjoy. READ MORE >>
With the credit ratings agency Standard & Poor’s estimating that there’s a one-in-three chance that Greece will abandon the euro sometime after its June 17 election, some people are already looking for a silver lining: READ MORE >>
Savagery
The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain By Paul Preston (W.W. Norton, 700 pp., $35) READ MORE >>
History as Fantasy
Vanished Kingdoms: The Rise and Fall of States and NationsBy Norman Davies (Viking, 830 pp., $40) READ MORE >>
What the Libyan Intervention May Have Cost Us
Break the Stalemate! A Blueprint For a Military Intervention in Syria
This is a contribution to ‘What Should the United States Do About Syria?: A TNR Symposium.’ READ MORE >>
The Case for Organizing a Military Force From Muslim Countries to Intervene in Syria
This article is a contribution to ‘What Should the United States Do About Syria?: A TNR Symposium.’ READ MORE >>
