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Reviewer Kidd considers a new history of the idea of liberty by one of the UK's most esteemed political philosophers.

The focus of the book is on Dominic Ongwen, a former soldier in the cultish army known as the Lord’s Resistance Army in northern Uganda. Ongwen had been kidnapped by the LRA when he was nine years old and transformed into a soldier and criminal...

This book, writes reviewer Bader, "probes the ways Christian nationalism is marketed" to boys, "and exposes the misogyny, racism, homophobia, transphobia and xenophobia that are its stock and trade."

In mapping the Palestinian history and culture that persists despite Israeli suppression, Raja Shehadeh and Penny Johnson display a strength of purpose and a promise of hope.

An Israeli-American historian of Holocaust and Genocide Studies covers the dynamic of a Jewish state that has thrived on Holocaust roots, how that legacy has been exploited becoming an apartheid state, a practitioner of genocide of Palestinians

The Little Tramp’s legal woes were more over-the-top than a Bruckheimer film

This fascinating book questions whether such a misunderstood ideal should be lauded as an end in itself.

A critical assessment of the newest translation of Marx's masterwork.

"The principal virtue of the book," writes reviewer Koppelman, "is the light it unintentionally sheds on some of the Supreme Court’s least defensible decisions."

This book examines efforts of the network of Trump, government members, and the ultra-rich, to overturn Times v. Sullivan, the SCOTUS decision that made it hard for politicians to sue the press for defamation.