Essays
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The fight for Europe's future
Financial Times, 28 Jun 2025 -
Angela Merkel - Eastern leader of the West
The Times Literary Supplement, 29 Nov 2024 -
Homage to Kharkiv
The New Your Review, 21 Nov 2024 -
Where is Central Europe now?
The Times Literary Supplement, 24 May 2024 -
Big Germany, What Now?
The New York Review, 23 May 2024 -
Ukraine’s fate, Europe’s choice
Prospect Magazine, 24 Jan 2024 -
‘Europe Whole and Free’
The New York Review, 2 Nov 2023 -
Putin, Pushkin, and the decline of the Russian empire
European Council on Foreign Relations, 23 Aug 2023 -
How the War in Ukraine Is Transforming Europe
Foreign Affairs (Council on Foreign Relations), 18 Apr 2023 -
The Message from Kyiv
The Spectator, 25 Feb 2023 -
Ukraine in Our Future
The New York Review, 23 Feb 2023 -
The Future of Liberalism
Prospect Magazine, 9 Dec 2020 -
Free speech is about listening as well as talking
Financial Times, 13 Jul 2020 -
Time for a New Liberation?
New York Review of Books, 24 Oct 2019 -
The west needs its own perestroika moment
Financial Times, 22 Jan 2019 -
Life after liberation
Foreign Affairs (Council on Foreign Relations), 11 Dec 2018 -
Brexit: an island on the edge
Prospect Magazine, 9 Nov 2018 -
Poland's Dangerous Populism
New York Review of Books, 16 Aug 2018 -
It’s the Kultur, Stupid
New York Review of Books, 7 Dec 2017 -
Is Europe Disintegrating?
New York Review of Books, 19 Jan 2017 -
Defying the Assassin's Veto
New York Review of Books, 19 Feb 2015 -
Censored!
New York Review of Books, 23 Oct 2014 -
Putin’s Deadly Doctrine
New York Times, 18 Jul 2014 -
From the Lighthouse: The World and the NYR After Fifty Years
New York Review of Books, 7 Nov 2013 -
The New German Question
New York Review of Books, 15 Aug 2013 -
Burma's Uncrowned Queen
New York Review of Books, 6 Jun 2013 -
The King and I
New York Review of Books, 23 May 2013 -
India: Watch What You Say
New York Review of Books, 25 Apr 2013 -
To stay in Europe, vote Conservative
Financial Times, 19 Apr 2013 -
Freedom & Diversity: A Liberal Pentagram for Living Together
New York Review of Books, 22 Nov 2012 -
The Crisis of Europe
Foreign Affairs, 16 Aug 2012 -
Germans, More or Less
New York Review of Books, 11 Feb 2011 -
Velvet Revolution: The Prospects
New York Review of Books, 3 Dec 2009 -
1989!
New York Review of Books, 5 Nov 2009 -
The Road from Danzig
New York Review of Books, 16 Aug 2007 -
The Stasi on Our Minds
New York Review of Books, 31 May 2007 -
Islam in Europe
New York Review of Books, 5 Oct 2006 -
Soldiers of the Hidden Imam
New York Review of Books, 3 Nov 2005 -
The Orange Revolution
New York Review of Books, 28 Apr 2005 -
A Genius for Friendship
New York Review of Books, 23 Sep 2004 -
Orwell’s List
New York Reviews of Books, 25 Sep 2003 -
Anti-Europeanism in America
New York Reviews of Books, 13 Feb 2003 -
On the Frontier
New York Reviews of Books, 7 Nov 2002 -
Is There a Good Terrorist?
New York Reviews of Books, 29 Nov 2001 -
Odd Man Out
New York Reviews of Books, 1 Nov 2001 -
The European Orchestra
New York Reviews of Books, 17 May 2001 -
Is Britain European?
Prospect, 20 Feb 2001 -
Is Britain European? (full version, paywall)
International Affairs, 16 Dec 2002 -
The Last Revolution [Serbia]
New York Reviews of Books, 16 Nov 2000 -
Kosovo: Was It Worth It?
New York Reviews of Books, 21 Sep 2000 -
Beauty and the Beast in Burma
New York Reviews of Books, 25 May 2000 -
Anarchy & Madness [Serbia and Kosovo]
New York Reviews of Books, 10 Feb 2000 -
Hail Ruthenia!
New York Reviews of Books, 22 Apr 1999 -
The Puzzle of Central Europe
New York Reviews of Books, 18 Mar 1999 -
Cry, the Dismembered Country
New York Reviews of Books, 14 Jan 1999 -
Goodbye to Bonn
New York Reviews of Books, 5 Nov 1998 -
Orwell in 1998
New York Reviews of Books, 22 Oct 1998 -
Can Europeans really find no way of living together in democracies other than living apart?
London Review of Books, 17 Sep 1998 -
The black and the red
Prospect, 20 Jun 1998 -
Europe: Iceberg Ahead
New York Reviews of Books, 14 May 1998 -
Writing for Rupert
Prospect, 20 Apr 1998 -
Comparative Horrors
London Review of Books, 19 Mar 1998 -
Europe's Endangered Liberal Order
Foreign Affairs, March/April 1998 issue -
The Truth About Dictatorship
New York Reviews of Books, 19 Feb 1998 -
The Curse and Blessing of South Africa
New York Reviews of Books, 14 Aug 1997 -
True Confessions
New York Reviews of Books, 17 Jul 1997 -
Bad memories
Prospect, 20 Aug 1997 -
The Imperfect Spy (Review essay on Markus Wolf)
New York Reviews of Books, 26 Jun 1997 -
In the Serbian Soup
New York Reviews of Books, 24 Apr 1997 -
Hungary’s Revolution: Forty Years On
New York Reviews of Books, 14 Nov 1996 -
Back into Europe
Prospect, 20 Jun 1996 -
‘Neo-Pagan’ Poland
New York Reviews of Books, 11 Jan 1996 -
Bosnia in Our Future
New York Reviews of Books, 21 Dec 1995 -
Central Europe: The Present Past
New York Reviews of Books, 13 Jul 1995 -
Catching the wrong bus? Europe's future and the great gamble of monetary union
The Times Literary Supplement, 15 May 1995 -
Prague: Intellectuals & Politicians
New York Reviews of Books, 12 Jan 1995 -
Germany's Choice
Foreign Affairs, July/August 1994 issue -
Journey to the Post-Communist East
New York Reviews of Books, 23 Jun 1994 -
The Visit
Granta, 1 Oct 1993 -
Poland After Solidarity
New York Reviews of Books, 13 Jun 1991 -
East Germany: The Solution
New York Reviews of Books, 26 Apr 1990 -
Revolution in Hungary and Poland
New York Reviews of Books, 17 Aug 1989 -
From World War to Cold War
New York Reviews of Books, 11 Jun 1987 -
In the Churchill Museum
New York Reviews of Books, 7 May 1987 -
Under Western Eyes: Poland, 1980–1982
The Washington Quarterly, Volume 7, 1984 - Issue 2