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Vali Nasr examines Iran鈥檚 political history in new ways to explain its actions and ambitions on the world stage, showing how, behind the veneer of theocracy and Islamic ideology, today鈥檚 Iran is pursuing a grand strategy aimed at securing the country internally and asserting its place in the region and the world.

A new history of the Celts that reveals how this once-forgotten people became a pillar of modern national identity in Britain, Ireland, and France.

Choice touches virtually every aspect of our lives, from what to buy and where to live to whom to love, what profession to practice, and even what to believe. But the option to choose in such matters was not something we always possessed or even aspired to. The Age of Choice tells the long history of the invention of choice as the defining feature of modern freedom.

The evening before Three King鈥檚 Day, on January 6th, Puerto Rican rapper and singer Bad Bunny released his sixth album DeB脥 TiRAR MaS FOTos (I Should Have Taken More Pictures). Instead of releasing highly produced videos, the artist's team worked with Jorell Mel茅ndez-Badillo, author of 鈥淧uerto Rico: A National History,鈥� to create historical slides that were launched alongside each of the seventeen tracks.

The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life is a sweeping history of the rise of personal choice, from shopping to voting to family planning. It explores how the simple act of selecting from a menu of options became equated with freedom in much of the modern world鈥攁nd with what consequences for all of us.

Yanni Kotsonis discusses his new book, a sweeping global history of the birth of modern Greece.