Barry Strauss

4 weeks ago | libraryjournal.com | Barry Strauss

. Aug. 2025. 384p. ISBN 9781668009598. $29.99. HIST COPY ISBN Historian Strauss (emeritus, Cornell Univ.; The War That Made the Roman Empire) hits another home run with this thorough account of the tumultuous relations between Rome and its most contentious subjects, the Jews, in ancient times, tracing it across two centuries, from Pompey’s conquest of Jerusalem in 63 BCE through the last great revolt in 132–136 CE.

4 weeks ago | hoover.org | Barry Strauss

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4 weeks ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Barry Strauss

Editor’s note: The Washington Examiner is honored to publish the unedited remarks of this year’s Bradley Prize honorees. Barry Strauss gave the speech below. I would like to thank The Bradley Foundation for the signal honor it has granted me by making me one of the recipients of the 2025 Bradley Prize. I accept, with gratitude and humility. Permit me to say a few words about the subject I know best — higher education — a matter of importance for us all.

1 month ago | hoover.org | Barry Strauss

The latest book by historian Barry Strauss, Hoover’s Corliss Page Dean Senior Fellow and a recipient of the 2025 Bradley Prize, is the forthcoming (Simon & Schuster, 2025). Of all the Greek myths, none resonates like the Trojan horse. You know the story. After trying and failing to take the city of Troy for ten years, the invading Greek army employs a ruse. They up stakes and pretend to go home, leaving behind only a towering wooden horse as a gift to the gods.

Mar 20, 2025 | hoover.org | Barry Strauss

As of this writing, the United States government is trying to negotiate a peace settlement in Ukraine, three years after Russia invaded. Although some progress has been made, it’s been a rocky road, marked by verbal tussles and continued bloodshed. Probably more obstacles lay ahead. After all, it took two years of negotiations before the armistice was agreed on that ended the Korean War in 1953. Still, it is now possible to imagine the shape of a negotiated settlement.