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11 Books We Read This Week: Berlin at war, how the brain makes time, Judy Blume’s real talk for young readers and more. wsj.com/arts-culture/b…

Spying was George Downing’s true calling. He especially loved word-substitution ciphers—and turning on allies when it suited him, writes Mark G. Spencer wsj.com/arts-culture/b…

Mark Hertling was on his first combat deployment. Were he to die, he wanted to leave behind a record of what he experienced, writes Matt Gallagher wsj.com/arts-culture/b…

12 Books We Read This Week: Risk and ripening at Apple, Tojo’s destructive plan, a father’s formidable presence and more. wsj.com/arts-culture/b…

Claude Steele ponders what happens when we feel that our social identity is being scrutinized in professional and educational settings. wsj.com/arts-culture/b…

15 Books We Read This Week: A champion of women’s rights, the killing of Leon Trotsky, Nintendo’s rise and more. wsj.com/arts-culture/b…

The progressive-era settlement movement led well-off Americans to move in alongside immigrants and help them get their start, writes Howard Husock wsj.com/arts-culture/b…

15 Books We Read This Week: Tennyson in turmoil, the Civil War’s deadly camps, the golden age of the puzzling plot and more. wsj.com/arts-culture/b…

Public policy is heavily shaped by interest groups and bureaucracy. The rich have the freedom to provide alternative perspectives, writes Leslie Lenkowsky wsj.com/arts-culture/b…

Precision-guided munitions revolutionized the art of war. Moving targets could now be tracked and collateral damage minimized, writes Arthur Herman wsj.com/arts-culture/b…

Alexander Stubb envisions a multilateral world. He’d overhaul the United Nations Security Council and allot more say to the Global South, writes Brendan Simms wsj.com/arts-culture/b…

13 Books We Read This Week: Lincoln’s partisan roots, Bob Dylan’s late career, the rise of the NFL and more. wsj.com/arts-culture/b…

These five writers share their personal GOATs of early American literature, and why their long-ago works still resonate with them. wsj.com/arts-culture/b…

A corporate consultant finds lessons for better living in a variety of real-life events—even the Chilean mine collapse of 2010, writes Meghan Cox Gurdon wsj.com/arts-culture/b…

Human psychology has burdened us with anxiety about the future and regret about the past. It may be fruitful to look outwards, writes Andrew Stark wsj.com/arts-culture/b…

The Founders worried that the U.S. could be undermined by a powerful standing army. Civilians needed to be in control, writes Shay Khatiri wsj.com/arts-culture/b…

The Best Reviews of January: A harmonious history of sight and sound, a look at the long-range future of life, a maverick investor’s memoir and more. wsj.com/arts-culture/b…

High-value tech companies are growing in a lot more places than ever before. The U.S. and China still enjoy certain advantages, writes Marc Levinson wsj.com/arts-culture/b…

Revolutionary violence defined the 1970s, when airport security was lax and television made all the world a terrorist’s stage, writes Charles Lane wsj.com/arts-culture/b…

16 Books We Read This Week: Truman’s nuclear burden, a crisis of civic education, Julian Barnes’s fictional farewell and more. wsj.com/arts-culture/b…