Europe
The decline of the nation-state explains the West’s political crisis.
Is the recent upsurge of European populism a blip on the historical horizon, or the sign of a fundamental restructuring of the continent’s order?
Contrary to popular belief, few terrorists truly work alone.
Before IS there was al-Qaeda. After IS there will be something else.
Should the West be learning about women’s rights from the ayatollahs?
Integration is a two-way street.
Contrary to what you might think.
A divided polity with a restive Muslim population.
Are we Europeans doomed to suffer the loss of our inexhaustible cultural creativity, along with its source in Judeo-Christian tradition? The prospect must not be accepted.
For the sake of Europe’s future, it would pay to revisit the many warning signs that, though pointed out at the time, were mocked, dismissed, or denied.
Joseph Roth’s journalism.
Can a collection of nation-states whose populations loathe each other hang together? Who knows, but it’s that or hang separately.