The new antisemitism

IT MIGHT BE DIFFICULT TO DISCERN THROUGH the black clouds billowing from bomb craters in Tehran, but Iran has spent most of the 21st century as the region’s rising power. Until recently, things had re

Rage at Glastonbury Controversy of the week If ...

“[People] who never lived under socialism adore it, while everyone who lived under it hates it,”says Garry Kasparov, the Russian former chess grandmaster. New York’s enthusiasm for “democratic sociali

I AM A HISTORY PROFESSOR AT ONE OF THE UNIVERSITIES under attack by the Trump Administration. I am also a flag-waving patriot with an abiding love of the U.S. Those two statements might seem surprisin

The politics of memory in postwar Germany

“He came, he bombed, he ended the war” – or so Donald Trump wants the world to believe, says The Economist. Two days after US bombers struck Iranian nuclear facilities, Trump announced a ceasefire in