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March 23, 2015
Weird Bedfellows
In their defense of “tradition” against the liberating potential of architecture, Prince Charles and Xi Jinping find unlikely common ground.
Michael Sorkin
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January 14, 2015
Can Podemos Win in Spain?
Just a year after its founding, it’s the country’s leading party.
Sebastiaan Faber and Bécquer Seguín
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November 7, 2014
Secession Fever Grows in Catalonia
Barcelona and Madrid, which once made common cause against Franco, have ceased to understand each other.
Monika Zgustova
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October 24, 2014
It’s Time to Rethink American Exceptionalism
To believe that our nation has always been exceptional requires a suppression of ordinary skepticism and a belief that calls for extraordinary arrogance.
David Bromwich
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May 28, 2014
How a Far-Right, Anti-Immigrant Party Became France’s ‘New Normal’
For the first time in recorded history, the ultra-right-wing National Front came first in a national election.
Cécile Alduy
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January 11, 1986
Requiem for the American Empire
“Empires are restless organisms. They must constantly renew themselves; should an empire start leaking energy, it will die.”
Gore Vidal