Europe

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Toward a Realistic World Heritage List

  • Andrew Blackwell

No Parties, No Banners

The Spanish experiment with direct democracy.

  • Gianpaolo Baiocchi
  • Ernesto Ganuza

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

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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 tumultuous marriage of Leo and Sophia Tolstoy

  • Vivian Gornick

Mind the Gap

Are the harms of economic inequality primary psychological?

  • Claude S. Fischer

Curtain Call

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
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