Looking ahead to 2022, three Nobel Prize winners have one uniting message for all of us: All around the world, we must fight much harder for freedom.
Ai Weiwei Cries Wolf About Germany

Ai Weiwei engages in the very same racial stereotyping about Germany that he complains, with very thin, if not contrived proof the Germans exhibited toward him.
My Remarkable Month and a Half in China
Grass-roots interactions may not lay the groundwork for a viable relationship between the U.S. and China – but they can’t hurt.
Donald Trump and How Fascism Takes Root
What a dead Swiss novelist teaches us about the everyday men and women who are the willing, but unwitting accomplices of Donald Trump.
Holocaust Ignorance: Today’s Dangers

There must be a new urgency to ensuring that people everywhere understand the horrors of the past and the dangers of today’s authoritarian trends.
Holocaust Ignorance: Today’s Dangers

There must be a new urgency to ensuring that people everywhere understand the horrors of the past and the dangers of today’s authoritarian trends.
Japan: Still Not Owning Up to Its Dark History

Prime Minister Abe’s fourth arrow should be a credible national apology.
Japan and Weimar

How are Japanese nationalists trying to change the constitution "without anyone noticing"?
The Geopolitical Consequences of a New Great Depression
What is at stake if the U.S. and global economies lapse into a sustained depression?