Europe
Lunchtime in Italy
The tradition allows private and public life to meet, maintaining a baseline solidarity in civic life.
Race and Sweden’s Fascist Turn
The recent electoral success of a party with Nazi origins must be understood as part of the long history of white Swedes’ desire for racial homogeneity.
Imagining Ukraine
Poland and Russia both think of Ukraine as a seat of authentic Slavic culture. Józef Czapski’s war memoir highlights how this has often clashed with Ukraine’s independence.
NATO and the Road Not Taken
Condemning Putin’s war must go hand in hand with imagining a more just security order.
Open Access Book: Conflict in Ukraine
Selected by The New York Times as one of the best reads for context on the current conflict, our book on the unwinding of the post–Cold War order is now available for all to read.
Beyond the Postsoviet
The war in Ukraine is shaped by global neoliberalism, sexism, and racism—not just Cold War dynamics.
What Rule-Based International Order?
Putin’s war in Ukraine breaks the rules, but powerful states always do.
The Beginnings of Queer Citizenship
In the 1970s, gay and lesbian West Germans sought to forge political solidarity from sexual identity.
Sacrificing for the Climate
In the most turbine-surrounded community in the world, poor residents understand that their loss—of land, jobs, and serenity—has nothing to do with the common good. Clean energy advocates should take notice.
The Circular Economy
Pushing back against the throw-away economy, the EU is designing an industrial policy around garbage.
Against Incrementalism
Center-left parties should learn that small-bore solutions are a waste of time.
What Is Infrastructure, Anyway?
The fight over the American Jobs Plan reflects a long history of competing visions of public works—and, most of all, who should benefit from rebuilding.
Poland’s Memory Politics Are Rewriting History
The country’s ruling party is suppressing research and cultural work on the role of ethnic Poles in the persecution of Poland’s Jews.
Petra Kelly and the Radical Green Past
The Greens are on track to become Germany’s second strongest party. Was abandoning radicalism was the right choice?
Is There a Right to Heresy?
A proposed French bill says so. But, strictly speaking, there can be no such thing as blasphemy within the terms of secular public order.
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