Cold War
One cheer for the former dictator.
The concessions are dangerous and unnecessary.
What the annual conference reveals about Europe’s democracies.
A much-loved new biography argues that the convicted Soviet spy “betrayed no one.” How has the myth of her innocence become so untethered from the evidence of her guilt?
World Wars I, II, and III.
War, and the threat of war, is key to the regime’s legitimacy.
He laid the problems of the Middle East at the feet of the dictators who brutalized the Arab people.
The Episcopalian diplomat who hosted a seder.
Worth more than “five CIAs.”
Combat conspiracy theories with the truth.
It transmitted vital intelligence about Soviet military technology.
The case of Eric Hobsbawm.
With the recent death of the unrepentant spy, his story, along with that of other American Jews steeped in Communism, can finally be told.
I expected the women’s movement to evaporate as quickly as it had materialized. It was the worst cultural prediction of my life.