A Book for All Seasons: Golden Harvest or Hearts of Gold?

Publication Date: Thursday, January 17, 2013

Not all of Thucydides' academic heirs have devoted themselves to the pursuit of truth, searching for every nugget of data they manage to dig out from oblivion, then revise their speculation in deference to the facts; indeed, the political correctness that currently infects public discourse is anathema to such practice.  {read more}

Juliana Pilon reviews The Work of Enchantment by Matthew Del Nevo

Publication Date: Tuesday, September 4, 2012

This slim volume by Australian philosophy professor Matthew Del Nevo offers a sensitive and loving celebration of enchantment, which he defines as "being captivated by the beautiful." A feeling familiar from childhood, enchantment becomes harder to experience as we age, especially against the mundane rapidity of modernity. Paradoxically, the same metastasis of gadgets and entertainment that people the world over begrudge us saps the West's ability to nurture the spirituality that forms the very essence of enchantment.      {read more}

Dr. Pilon reviews "The Abuse of Holocaust Memory: Distortions and Responses"

Publication Date: Wednesday, August 11, 2010

As the direct witnesses are slowly leaving us for the ultimate darkness, the memory of mankind's descent into hell known as the Holocaust seems increasingly fragile. It may seem incredible that such a seismic event that nearly succeeded in extinguishing the Jewish people should be subject to crass political manipulation, but so it is.  {read more}

The Russian ‘Spies’: Information vs. Influence

Publication Date: 8 July 2010

Dr. Juliana Geran Pilon clarifies the important distinction between espionage strictu sensu and "active measures" in the case of Russia's "suburban spies" in a post on National Review Online's blog.  {read more}

Prof. Pilon reviews Anthropologists in Arms: The Ethics of Military Anthropology

Publication Date: Friday, April 23, 2010

In the Spring 2010 issue of the International Journal of Intelligence Ethics, IWP Professor Juliana Pilon reviews George Lucas' book, Anthropologists in Arms: The Ethics of Military Anthropology.  {read more}

Faculty in focus: Dr. Juliana Pilon on American exceptionalism

Publication Date: Friday, August 1, 2008

The Advocate

IWP Research Professor Juliana Pilon reviews Josef Joffe's Uberpower: The Imperial Temptation of America

Publication Date: Saturday, September 1, 2007

Research Professor and Earhart Fellow Dr. Juliana Geran Pilon analyzes the public diplomacy aspects of contemporary American power as explained by Josef Joffe in Uberpower: The Imperial Temptation of America (WW Norton, 2006).  Dr. Pilon's review essay appeared in the fall 2007 edition of The Journal of International Security Affairs.  To read her remarks, please click on "PDF" on the upper right.  {read more}

Utopia and its Discontents

Publication Date: March 1, 2007

If moral clarity graced our times, the publication of Paul Hollander’s comprehensive compilation of first-hand accounts by former communist victims, From the Gulag to the Killing Fields, would elicit a collective shudder of horror and sorrow.  {read more}

Hope beyond that hatred

Publication Date: Monday, May 1, 2006

Tales about the nightmare of Iran: Literature as survival

Publication Date: January-February 2004

IWP Research Professor Juliana Pilon's review of Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Random House, 2003).  {read more}