Mal Warwick on Books: Insightful Reviews and Recommendations

Any American youngster past the age of 12 has learned that around the turn of the 20th century our country’s politics took a sharp turn to the left with the advent of the Progressive Movement. And one man above all embodies that movement: Theodore Roosevelt. Of course, ...

The American motion picture industry, which we know as “Hollywood,” began in the early 1910s when filmmakers migrated to California. By 1915, they had established a global cinema hub. But filmmaking grew early in India, too. The first Hndi-language feat...

AIDS, Ebola, Marburg, SARS, H5N1—every one of the world’s scariest diseases is a “zoonosis.” That’s a virus harbored by animals and transmitted to humans, often by other animals, in a complex minuet that often stretches out into decades. And these are the em...

It has been three years since the Second World War ended, leaving his country still in ruins. But the people languish under the rule of a one-party Communist government headed by Comrade Mihai. The despised Germans and their sympathizers have b...

On a hill named Mount Herzl in Jerusalem lies Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center. Within this moving memorial to the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust lie a synagogue, a children’s museum, and research facilities as well as a garden commemorating the...