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The use of food as a weapon during World War II.

The Czech playwright's enduring ideas about politics, truth and human nature.

Vaclav Havel was undoubtedly one of the greatest Europeans of our generation, a man, who fully deserves the unquestionable respect both of his country and the world.

A visit from Warren is a test of hospitality: you don’t take him in, you take him on.

Rosa Luxemburg wanted it all: books and music, sex and art, evening walks and the revolution. Her lover, Leo Jogiches, told her this was nonsense.

As Tom Segev’s biography makes clear, in the entire pantheon of Jewish superheroes there is no more unlikely figure than Simon Wiesenthal.

During war, John Dower explains, “the system filters out the thoughtful and replaces them with the faithful.”

Susie Linfield's The Cruel Radiance is a demanding and flawed attempt to regard the pain of others through photographs.

David Fincher's The Social Network; Yael Hersonki's A Film Unfinished; Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today

Russia scholar Stephen Cohen talks to the Journal of International Affairs about re-democratization and the modernization debate.