Identity Politics in ex-Soviet Europe
Few areas of news coverage are as new to religion as it is to Europe. Particularly for journalists from the United States and the Middle East, where faith and politics are ineluctably intertwined.(...)
Telling it Like it Is
My favourite response to loudmouths is to ignore them. Don’t give them the oxygen of publicity, don’t repeat their slogans and don’t share their images on social media.(...)
The Yellow Peril is Back
The UK has just faced a scandal over its relations with China because of its use of Huawei technology in its 5G network.(...)
Chantal Mouffe and the Spanish Election
With the results of the snap elections held in Spain on Sunday still in the headlines, new questions have been raised about the so-called “populist moment” about which so much ink has been spilt of late.(...)
Alternative für Deutschland and the Gay Right
In 1934, in the infamous Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler ordered the liquidation of the entire leadership of the paramilitary SA, led by Hitler’s one-time second-in-command Ernst Röhm.(...)
Britain At War
Long ago, while earning a library science degree, I worked as a manuscripts processing archivist at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. I handled letters and materials from the 17th century to the present.(...)
The Maxim Edwards Interview, Part I
Maxim Edwards cuts a decidedly retro figure. Not for his ideas, or analyses, but his sense of geography. For nearly a decade, Edwards has made the post-Soviet sphere his stomping grounds. (...)
The EU and Benjamin Netanyahu
Guy Verhofstadt. Massimo D’Alema. Sigmar Gabriel. David Miliband. Over thirty strong, the list of former European foreign ministers and prime ministers had been attached to a letter published in The Guardian, imploring the EU to stay committed to the two-state solution.(...)
America Versus Julian Assange
The UK should resist the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States. But what should be done about the sexual assault claims in Sweden?(...)