Lest you think The Blue Period has abated, know that I am taking it slowly with Anne Applebaum's Iron Curtain: The Crushing Of Eastern Europe. Ostensibly a history of Eastern Europe under Soviet rule, ...

Reading of the president-elect’s cabinet nominees brings to mind words by Hannah Arendt: "Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sym-pathies, with ...

Last Thursday Nobel-winning economist Paul Krugman issued a warning in the New York Times. “The pandemic will eventually end,” he wrote, “but democracy, once lost, may never come back. And we’re much ...