Very Civil Disobedience Very Civil Disobedience
Whatever the ultimate effect last week's mammoth disarmament rally in New York City will have on the prospects for world peace, it did much to rehabilitate the idea of peaceful p...
Jan 2, 1998 / The Editors
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
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
Yeltsin’s Elections Yeltsin’s Elections
This issue also featured contributions from Boris Kagarlitsky and Aleksandr Likhotal under the same headline.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
The Triumph of Euroamericanism The Triumph of Euroamericanism
Western Europe is looking into an uncertain future. The German election, which was supposed to clear the horizon, has really obstructed the view.
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