Joel Schalit / 26 Feb 2020
Coronavirus as Politics
The Populist Disease
Every disaster has a silver lining. You just have to be heartless enough to exploit it.(...)
Nazis
John Foster / 24 Feb 2020
Revenge on Germany
Miriam Gebhardt’s Crimes Unspoken
The rape of hundreds of thousands of German women in the waning days of the Second World War has historically gotten short shrift, both as crime and tragedy. (...)
Joe Keady / 21 Feb 2020
Hatred Made Him Do It
The Tobias Rathjen Murders
The facts of the Hanau killings are not in dispute: the assailant, 43-year-old Tobias Rathjen, entered a hookah bar on Wednesday night and began firing indiscriminately before shooting several more people at a kiosk. (...)
Joel Schalit / 27 Jan 2020
When the Present is the Past
20th Century Nostalgia Politics
Hitler never pretended to like Jews. His hatred was unambiguous. (...)
John Foster / 10 Jan 2020
Imagining a Europe Made Whole
Simone Zelitsch’s Judenstaat
Perhaps it is a sign of the wounds inflicted by National Socialism that so much speculative fiction has been written exploring how things might have turned out differently. (...)
Joel Schalit / 02 Jan 2020
America’s Antisemitism Crisis
The View From Europe
The headline could not have been more provocative: Is It Time for the Jews to Leave Europe?(...)
Sean Quinn / 20 Dec 2019
Nationalism, Italian-Style
Sourcing the Crisis
Chaos reigned on the road between Musso and Dongo, two small towns north of Lake Como. (...)
Joel Schalit / 16 Oct 2019
Last Train to Halle
History At a Standstill
I've never gotten the hang of taking trains in Germany. I avoid using them whenever possible.(...)
Joel Schalit / 23 Aug 2019
The Russia Among Us
Berlin Ground Zero
Russia never goes out of style. Whether it's blamed for subverting democracy, or praised for its role in defeating fascism, the country gets linked to everything in world politics.(...)
Joe Keady / 21 Aug 2019
Far-Right Housing Complexes
The New Fascist Makeover
One of the overarching projects of the European new right is an incremental disentangling what it considers the “good” fascists from the “bad” Nazis. (...)