Braving Bush’s New World Order Braving Bush’s New World Order
Letter From Europe
Jan 2, 1998 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Singer
Paris Letter: The Politics and the Pity Paris Letter: The Politics and the Pity
"We are all German Jews" chanted 50,000 Frenchmen at the gates of the Bastille in 1968; I was recently reminded of this episode, which has become revolutionary lore…
Jan 2, 1998 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Singer
The Bloody Cul-de-Sac The Bloody Cul-de-Sac
On March 16, 1978, Aldo Moro—a key figure of Italy’s ruling Christian Democracy—was captured in Rome in broad daylight by the Red Brigades.
Jan 2, 1998 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Singer
Stalin’s Grandchildren Stalin’s Grandchildren
“At the burial of communism too many people want to jump from the coffin into the funeral procession.”
Jan 2, 1998 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Singer
The Apparatchiks The Apparatchiks
What price is Poland paying for its Stalinist heritage?
Jan 2, 1998 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Singer
Fact or Fiction? Fact or Fiction?
Jacques Attali cannot be too happy with the reason he is hugging the headlines.
Jan 2, 1998 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Singer
Dancing on the Grave of Revolution Dancing on the Grave of Revolution
1789 and all that.
Jan 2, 1998 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Singer
Unto Every One That Hath Unto Every One That Hath
When early Socialists dreamt of a society of equals, they could not even imagine a society with the productive capacities of America today. And yet equality looms more distant than...
Jan 2, 1998 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Singer
Three on Poland Three on Poland
In August 1980 the Gdansk shipyard workers astonished the world by winning the right to set up a genuinely independent labor union.
Jan 2, 1998 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Singer
The Sound and the Furet The Sound and the Furet
The public is still under the spell of the counterpoint in Francis Fukuyama's famous exercise in propaganda: Capitalism is eternal because there is no alternative.
Jan 1, 1998 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Singer