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No Parties, No Banners

The Spanish experiment with direct democracy.

Ernesto Ganuza, Gianpaolo Baiocchi

A Shared Fate

Europeans might accept supranational democracy in theory, but cannot see it as part of their lives.
Jan-Werner Müller

Containing Outrage

How police power tames the Occupy movement.

Alasdair Roberts

Like a Dog

Serge Avedikian’s Barking Island.

Colin Dayan

Europeans Against Multiculturalism

Political Attacks Misread History, Target Muslims, and May Win Votes
John R. Bowen

On the March

Hungary’s ascendant right wing.

Paul Hockenos

Making Muslim Democracies

The history of Christian Democracy provides reasons for optimism and lessons for the future in Turkey. 

Jan-Werner Müller

The Ancient Dream

The “happily ever after” of marriage ruined the Tolstoys.

Vivian Gornick

Mind the Gap

Are the harms of economic inequality primary psychological? 

Claude S. Fischer

Curtain Call

Alan Stone reviews Marco Bellocchio’s Vincere.

Alan A. Stone

Before History

Harry Clifton's Secular Eden.

Alissa Valles

Man of Principle

The Passions of Arthur Koestler.

Roger Boylan

Kingpin

On Jacques Audiard's A Prophet.

Alan A. Stone

Past Forward

Coping with post–Cold War Romania.

Paul Hockenos

Sins of the Father

Alan Stone reviews Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon.

Alan A. Stone

Nothing To Fear

Misreading Muslim immigration in Europe.

John R. Bowen

All Bark, No Bite

The decline of Germany’s Social Democrats.
Clay Risen

The Memory That Will Not Die

Exhuming the Spanish Civil War.
Julius Purcell

The Fetch

Ciaran Carson's For All We Know.
Piotr Florczyk

Private Arrangements

“Recognizing sharia” in England.

John R. Bowen

Condemned

Stephen Daldry’s The Reader.

Alan A. Stone

Intimate Revenge: Writing the Troubles

The Big Man of Northern Ireland, Ian Paisley, has died.

Roger Boylan

Working Wonders

Fatih Akin’s The Edge of Heaven.
Alan A. Stone

We Laughed, We Cried

Flann O'Brien's triumph.

Roger Boylan

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