The Hungarian government is trying to close down Central European University (CEU), an American-accredited university in Budapest founded by George Soros in 1991 to support intellectual freedom and free speech..
Geert Wilders fell well behind nationalist-populist hopes in yesterday’s Dutch elections. His anti-immigration PVV party is set to gain a few seats in Parliament (from 15 to 19), but.
Attempts to connect our current situation with the 1930s are coming out pretty regularly (and more will follow). But when two leading historians of fascism speak up, it's worth listening..
File this one under: "of course": Steve Bannon planned to make a three-part faux documentary about Muslim radicals taking over the US. The outline shows how Bannon — years before he became.
My to-do list today included tracking down eighteenth-century primary sources in French for some of my ambitious Francophone students. So, obviously, I decided to see what if anything French press.
I woke today to the news that we lost another great: Clare Hollingworth, war correspondent extraordinaire. Hollingworth is best known for her WWII scoop (see today’s many tributes)—but I’m also.
