Papal Polonaise Papal Polonaise
The post-Stalinist regimes of Eastern Europe collapsed in part because of the glaring contrast between theory and practice, promise and fulfillment.
Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer
Capitalism From Above Capitalism From Above
Letter From Europe
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Algeria Slides Into Civil War Algeria Slides Into Civil War
Letter From Europe
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Historic Moment Historic Moment
The meeting around a green table between representatives of Poland's ruling party and of Solidarity marks a serious new attempt to include the opposition as an integral part of the...
Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer
Does the Left Have a Future? Does the Left Have a Future?
Letter From Europe
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Le Pen’s Pals—Blood and Soil Le Pen’s Pals—Blood and Soil
There are two unmistakable signs that France is entering a pre-electoral period: The government is once again tinkering with the electoral law and the politicians are competing wit...
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
La Peste La Peste
François Mitterrand, everything suggests, will be re-elected as President next Sunday, but Jean-Marie Le Pen is the unquestioned winner of the first-round tally.
Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer
Supping With the French Devil Supping With the French Devil
The temptation to accept the National Front as a partner has split the right.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / 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
Mythologizing the Bomb Mythologizing the Bomb
The beauty of the atomic scientists' calculations hid from them the truly Faustian contract they scratched their names to.
Aug 14, 1995 / E.L. Doctorow