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
Handicapping the French Elections Handicapping the French Elections
All the ingredients are apparently there, but somehow the mayonnaise does not bind.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
The Market Is the New Religion The Market Is the New Religion
Back in Warsaw after my trip to Gdansk, I talk about the economy with the outgoing government's spokesman on reform. He is more specific on what is to be done than on how it sho...
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Czechoslovakia’s Quiet Revolution Czechoslovakia’s Quiet Revolution
"Havel to the castle": In the doubly festive mood just before Christmas the heart of Prague was full of posters bearing that slogan and a picture of Vaclav Havel, the famous pl...
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Coup in Algeria Coup in Algeria
CORRECTION: 28 percent of registered voters chose the Islamic Salvation Front. (3/2/92).
Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer
Yeltsin in Dubious Battle Yeltsin in Dubious Battle
For once Boris Yeltsin was true to his word. He had said in public that August would be the month of "artillery preparations" and September the time of the clash. On September 21...
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Mitterrand Le Petit Mitterrand Le Petit
The longest reign in the history of the French Republic is coming to an end, possibly a premature one, with a sense of drama.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Honor the Man–and the Movement Honor the Man–and the Movement
Hardly had the Nobel Peace Prize committee announced that Solidarity leader Lech Walesa was its 1983 laureate but President Reagan and other cold warriors began praising the choice...
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Co-existentialism in France Co-existentialism in France
Although Sartre may be out of fashion, political co-existentialism is the main subject of speculation in Paris.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer