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Mussolini and the Eclipse of Italian Fascism
From Dictatorship to Populism
On the tenth anniversary of his rise to power in 1932, Mussolini seemed to many the “good dictator.” He was the first totalitarian and the first fascist in modern Europe. But a year later Hitler’s entrance onto the political...
MI9
A History of The Secret Service for Escape and Evasion in World War Two
When Allied fighters were trapped behind enemy lines, one branch of military intelligence helped them escape: MI9. The organization set up clandestine routes that zig-zagged across Nazi-occupied Europe, enabling soldiers and...
On the Basis of Art
150 Years of Women at Yale
Marking the 150th anniversary of the first women students at Yale, who came to study at the Yale School of the Fine Arts (now Yale School of Art) when it opened in 1869, and the 50th anniversary of undergraduate coeducation...
Our Days Are Like Full Years
A Memoir with Letters from Louis Kahn
On a winter day in 1953, a mysterious man in a sheepskin coat stood out to Harriet Pattison (b. 1928), then a theater student at Yale. She would later learn he was the architect Louis Kahn (1901–1974). This chance encounter...
On Order
St. Augustine's Cassiciacum Dialogues, Volume 3
The first four works written by St. Augustine of Hippo after his conversion to Christianity are dialogues that have influenced prominent thinkers from Boethius to Bernard Lonergan. Usually called the “Cassiciacum dialogues,”...
Soliloquies
St. Augustine's Cassiciacum Dialogues, Volume 4
The first four works written by St. Augustine of Hippo after his conversion to Christianity are dialogues that have influenced prominent thinkers from Boethius to Bernard Lonergan. Usually called the “Cassiciacum dialogues,”...
On Order
St. Augustine's Cassiciacum Dialogues, Volume 3
The first four works written by St. Augustine of Hippo after his conversion to Christianity are dialogues that have influenced prominent thinkers from Boethius to Bernard Lonergan. Usually called the “Cassiciacum dialogues,”...
Soliloquies
St. Augustine's Cassiciacum Dialogues, Volume 4
The first four works written by St. Augustine of Hippo after his conversion to Christianity are dialogues that have influenced prominent thinkers from Boethius to Bernard Lonergan. Usually called the “Cassiciacum dialogues,”...
Morozov
The Story of a Family and a Lost Collection
A wealthy Moscow textile merchant, Morozov started buying art in a modest way in 1900 until, on a trip to Paris, he developed a taste for the avant-garde. Meticulous and highly discerning, he acquired works by the likes of...
An Aristocracy of Critics
Luce, Hutchins, Niebuhr, and the Committee That Redefined Freedom of the Press
The Commission on Freedom of the Press was the greatest collaboration of intellectuals in the twentieth century. Financed by Time Inc. publisher Henry R. Luce, the committee included preeminent philosophers, educators,...