For the most part, history is more complicated and more nuanced than we give it credit for. Hindsight serves to soften and streamline the narrative. Understanding contemporary motivations requires a ...

In the rapidly evolving global order of the 21st century, despite unprecedented leaps in technology and economy, a ...

The Sun keeps Earth alive, but it also has the power to cripple civilization in a matter of hours. Massive solar flares and coronal mass ejections can knock out satellites, power grids, and global ...

Modern societies would be impossible without mass-scale production of many man-made materials. We could have an affluent civilization that provides plenty of food, material comforts, and access to ...

Author of “History of the Jews,” National Director, the Hillel Foundations. Here is one of the great seminal works of our day. It follows in the tradition of Philo, Saadiah, Maimonides and other ...