False echoes of Weimar

It is disappointing to see historian Volker Ullrich put his subject area expertise in service of current political exigency.
This Luger can be traced through an extraordinary chain of service, beginning with an upper assembly built in 1917 for the Imperial German Army, later property-marked by the Weimar Republic and ...
So while we should pray that America does not fall for the same historic dynamics that affected Al-Andalus and Deutschland, ...
With the far-right party ahead in the polls, I discovered that a novel set during the rise of the Nazis provides a timely warning, says journalist Tania Roettger ...
If I had one wish for my Democratic friends this holiday season, it would be this: stop being afraid. Don’t allow yourself to be manipulated into fear, and from there into supporting demagogues who ...
A HANDFUL of years throughout history are synonymous with a single event. It is impossible to think of 1066, 1776 or 1914 ...
The new right’s fomenting of contempt for all things liberal and the swelling antisemitism among its members are of a piece.
Bénédicte Savoy is Europe’s leading advocate for the repatriation of cultural heritage. Now, in the wake of a shocking heist, ...
The tragedy is not that corruption exists, but that we have normalised it to the point where it no longer shocks us ...
Keynote Address Delivered at the International Research Conference of the Faculty of Law, University of Colombo, on 12 ...
Fifty years ago, Sweden attempted the most ambitious democratic transition to socialism ever. Its architect, a Jewish ...
The greatest 1990s political thriller is a chilling war story and one of Director Mamoru Oshii's overlooked masterpiece anime films.