World
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Books
Ukraine, Gaza and the Long Shadow of German Guilt
In “Out of the Darkness,” Frank Trentmann details the way people in the country that started World War II are still confronting and atoning for the atrocities of their government.
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News
Joel Belz, Trailblazer in Christian Journalism, Is Dead at 82
Inspired by Time, he founded World magazine, covering politics, the arts and other subjects from a “God’s-eye” view.
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Newyork
How to Be Smarter Than a Member of Congress
Why has the isolationist wing of Congress been blocking aid to Ukraine and become, in effect, a tool for President Vladimir Putin of Russia? Republican politics explain some of this folly, but I think another reason is pure cluelessness. Congress has ...
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Newyork
Missing Profits May Be a Problem for the Green Transition
In October, the International Energy Agency issued a brief flare of optimism when it suggested that global carbon emissions from fossil fuels may already have peaked. The climate hopeful have been looking forward to this turn for years. But a peak is ...
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Newyork
Arno J. Mayer, Unorthodox Historian of Europe’s Crises, Dies at 97
A Jewish refugee from the Nazis, he argued that World War I, World War II and the Holocaust were all part of a “second Thirty Years’ War.”
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Newyork
This Was a Terrible Year, and Also Maybe the Best One Yet for Humanity
As the year ends, civilians are dying at a staggering pace in Gaza and the genocide in Darfur may be resuming. A man charged with 91 felonies is leading in American presidential polls, and our carbon emissions risk cooking our planet. But something ...
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Newyork
This Year, Make a Resolution About Something Bigger Than Yourself
New Year’s resolutions are penny-ante prayers. You are this way, but you hope to be that way. You used to want this, but now you want that. The assumption behind resolutions is that something must be corrected and improved. One vows to be better than ...
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Books
Animal Magnetism — and Optimism
Four new books look to fauna to get us through tough times.
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Newyork
We Forget Henry Kissinger’s Effectiveness at Our Own Peril
Henry Kissinger was the pre-eminent statesman of post-World War II America. He was not just a policymaker, he was a strategist who thought about the world in conceptual terms and drew on a nuanced understanding of history and geopolitics to guide U.S ...
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Newyork
I’ve Never Watched Anything as Transformative as ‘Sailor Moon’
The show is about friendship, yes, and also liberation that does not match the world’s expectations of femininity.