Yesterday, I stopped briefly in Philadelphia to deliver a short paper at the Philadelphia Society’s 43rd National Meeting. The general topic this year was “Challenges to Conservatism.” (I, too, have a ...

An account of the decisive first moment of the modern world, Buruma's (The China Lover, Occidentalism) history explores the nascent social and political forces that ...

The place of organized religion in the public square is well-trammeled territory; in this brief volume, journalist and Bard College professor Buruma (Murder in Amsterdam) adds to the discussion with ...

Under the Trump Administration, thousands of immigrant children have been detained, and many have suffered from medical neglect.

40 pages into Ian Buruma’s fascinating biography of the 17th-century philosopher Baruch Spinoza, some very modern language leaps from the page. “When people are banished from their community,” Buruma ...

Susan Sheehan won the Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction for her book “Is There No Place on Earth for Me?” When an author uncovers a ­half-century’s worth of hidden correspondence between his ...

NEW YORK CITY Harlem is glowing in the afternoon sun. The buildings are low here, the avenues wide. The light shines on the concrete and on the rowan trees that pierce it. Two motorbikes race along ...

The editor of the New York Review of Books on Trump, Brexit – and A Tokyo Romance, his memoir of life in Japan where he once went on stage as Hitler in a jockstrap People are often precisely who you ...

Before beginning our interview, Ian Buruma asks to stand in front of the French windows on the 27th floor of Shanghai JC Mandarin Hotel on Nanjing Road West for a while. Overlooking the architectural ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Ian Buruma is a highly respected academic and author who shot to international prominence with his book ...