How deep is the wound?
My grandfather was a German Jew who moved from a town in Lower Silesia to Toulouse, in southern France, immediately [...]
Vengeance unleashed
Israel makes war under the cover of a legacy of victimhood. With impunity and at times indiscriminately, it attacks all [...]
The basement war
In June 1967, I was a scaled-down Moshe Dayan in my bunker-like basement. Like the Israeli commander, I wore a [...]
Toward the revival of diplomacy
A war is child’s play with morosely adult consequences. A bully tries to snare a weakling as a means to [...]
Virus woes or a warning?
China’s total lockdown, ostensibly to control the spread of the Omicron variant, seems at times to be aimed at making a far more important global point.
Letter from an enemy friend
I first met the Russian national I most respect at a conference regarding the future of Russo-Iberian relations held in [...]
A shaky Union
These are difficult times for the European Union. As it marks the twentieth anniversary of the introduction of its common [...]
The perils of the markets card
In the lead-up to the 2016 Brexit referendum, a lot of the commentary focused on the potentially catastrophic outcomes of [...]
The limits of history
Politics, to tinker with an old saying, does anything but end at the water’s edge. Washington is busy arguing over [...]
Toward a new vision of Europe
For a brief moment in American history, Europe seemed like a backwater. In 2003, after traditional allies Germany and France [...]
Turning back the clock
Political leaders in both the United States and Europe have been making explicit what their actions had long been signaling: [...]