Berlin Wall

It’s tragic that 35 years after the Berlin Wall fell, Europe still relies on the US for security: Harold James

Ullekh NP

If there is to be real hope for Europe, it will require a new Renaissance, avers the Princeton University professor in an interview with Open on the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall

The Backstory of our Anxieties

TCA Raghavan

We are still living in the changes authored by the years 1979 and 1989

Who’s Afraid of Freedom?

S Prasannarajan

Three decades after 1989, the autocrat has become the sole choreographer of freedom

An Idea Under Siege

Edward Luce

The weakening of Western hegemony and the crisis of liberal democracy

Reading Fukuyama: How Liberal Is Your Democracy?

S Prasannarajan

The future of freedom and institutional decay

1989: Between History and Memory

S Prasannarajan

The threat today is no longer from the comic strip communism of Pyongyang. It is the ex-communist as an aggrieved nationalist, or the pinstriped communist as a Confucian capitalist, who challenges the world