Regions and Countries

Top Down or Bottom Up? Top Down or Bottom Up?

It is a pleasure to watch, on both sides of the Atlantic, the professional prophets of "evil empire" now forced to perform their "agonizing reappraisals."

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Achille’s Gamble Achille’s Gamble

When Achille Occhetto, the new General Secretary, closed the debate at the Eighteenth Congress of the Italian Communist Party (P.C.I.) in Rome on March 21, the delegates gave him...

Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer

Silent Reproach Silent Reproach

Some events carry an exceptional symbolic charge.

Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer

Braving Bush’s New World Order Braving Bush’s New World Order

The Soviet Union can no longer act as a brake on US. expansion, and Western Europe cannot do so yet. That is the bitter, bloody and understated lesson of the current crisis.

Jan 2, 1998 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Singer

The Stink of Money The Stink of Money

Los Angeles is not the only place perturbing the sermons of the preachers of history's end and capitalism's eternal youth.

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Of Lobsters and Poles Of Lobsters and Poles

Lobsters, French cookbooks assert, love to be cooked alive.

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Election ’95–Fractured France Election ’95–Fractured France

The miracle did not happen. Dynamics, as Lionel Jospin had hoped, did not defeat arithmetic. On his third try, Jacques Chirac made it. The Socialist interlude is over.

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Schools, Sculptors and Spring Fools Schools, Sculptors and Spring Fools

March 4. Hundreds of thousands of French citizens are marching today to defend "educational freedom"--that is, uncontrolled state subsidies for private Catholic schools.

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

The Lessons of Defeat The Lessons of Defeat

The hour has not yet struck for an offensive by the left in Western Europe.

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

New Days That Shake the World New Days That Shake the World

With Boris Yeltsin triumphantly defying the establishment in Moscow, Lech Walesa guiding the Polish opposition into Parliament and Imre Pozsgay, a member of the Hungarian Politb...

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

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