Roman Polanski at ninety: what will be his legacy?
Over the last forty-five years he’s become a sort of human Rorschach test
Joseph stalin
Thursday
Saturday
The reporter who covered up the Ukrainian famine
Now is the time to de-Pulitzer Walter Duranty, who ran cover for the Soviets
Thursday
Putin’s Stalinist playbook
The Russian leader has eschewed Lenin in favor of a more familiar figure
Thursday
The techniques of totalitarianism are still fully in play today
Instead of examining the dictators individually, How to Become a Tyrant explores their careers thematically
Thursday
Georgians on my mind
Amphora euphoria
Sunday
The Kondo effect in politics
Does our society spark joy?
