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}

Review of Anne Applebaum's "Gulag: A History"
Publication Date: September-November 2003
One would not have anticipated that Solzhenitsyn’s monumental expose of the system of Soviet prisons and concentration camps, published over two decades ago, could ever be outdone.Yet Anne Applebaum’s Gulag: A History, astonishingly enough, succeeds.  {read more}

Finding Home, Again . . .
Publication Date: Sunday, January 27, 2002

Natural Society Revisited
Publication Date: June 1998
It is heartening that a fashionable new field known as “civil society studies” has recently emerged. It is surely a symptom of concern over whether modern society as we know it is sufficiently civil to foster the growth of Western liberalism.   {read more}