Big Strategy: Ian Morris’s Geography is Destiny

Life at the Top: Toby Wilkinson’s The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt

Lesser than the Sum of its Parts: Dominic Lieven’s In the Shadow of the Gods

Unfocused Pain: Raoul Peck’s Exterminate All the Brutes

Pell-Mell Towards the Abyss: David Nichols’ Eisenhower 1956

No Good Options: When History Fails to Bring Clarity

What’s in a Diorama? Lessons in Interpretation from the Carnegie Museum of Natural History

Book Club: Empire of Guns, by Priya Satia

Mountains or Molehills? Duane Roller’s Empire of the Black Sea