How courageous are we going to be?

Ellen Halliday, deputy editor: Last year, you wrote of your concerns about the future of protest and civil liberties in the UK and that the picture is worse today than it ever was in the past. What do

Council of Europe head Alain Berset tells Newsweek that stability and the rule of law are in peril

Daniel Johnson worries that an illiberal America and a war-torn, world-weary Europe are failing to champion our Western civilisational values of liberty, democracy and the rule of law

A great upheaval is under way. Who will inherit the Earth? Late in life, the 18th-century French liberal thinker Abbé Sieyès was asked what he had done during the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror.

The Anglo-American state vs the universities

Netanyahu’s onslaught against Gaza has been genocidal, but Israelis refuse to see it. This has historical parallels—and roots in Israel’s foundation, writes Omer Bartov In June 2024, I visited Israel