Feature

Germany Muscles In Germany Muscles In

At the turn of the year, the Western media, like latter-day Columbuses, suddenly discovered that Europe was speaking with an increasingly strong German accent. Their surprise ...

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

A Deserter From Death A Deserter From Death

One of the first signs of old age, I'm told, is when a young woman offers you her seat on a bus (and the next stage, presumably, is when you accept it).

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Communism and the Left Communism and the Left

On the evening of February 6 at Town Hall in New York City, various elements of the American left (spanning Gore Vidal and PATCO and including E.L.

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Various Contributors

Socialism Takes Two Steps Back Socialism Takes Two Steps Back

The French socialist saga makes awkward reading for left-wingers. It has a wistful air of déjà vu.

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

The Mitterrand-Chirac-Barre Show The Mitterrand-Chirac-Barre Show

Most French voters, judging by opinion polls, are bored with the current presidential campaign. No wonder.

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

The Ghosts of Nationalism The Ghosts of Nationalism

The specter haunting Europe today, as it approaches the twenty-first century, is the ghost of nineteenth-century nationalism.

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Brightness at Midnight? Brightness at Midnight?

Climatically hot, it is politically a very strange summer on this side of the ocean.

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

How Many Masses Is Poland Worth? How Many Masses Is Poland Worth?

"Oh God," Heinrich Heine wrote, "how big is your zoo!" This sentence kept popping into my head in June as I read the dispatches of my journalistic colleagues on Pope John Paul II...

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

All Power to the Soviets All Power to the Soviets

Four days that fascinated the Soviet people.

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

The Last Superpower The Last Superpower

The Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, held in Paris at the end of November, might best be described by reversing Tolstoy's title. This was Peace and War.

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

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