Essays, Reviews
& Reports
Singapore
Whites, Singapore Reds
The
London Review of Books, Vol. 43, No. 6, March 18, 2021,
12-18
The
Limits of Barack ObamaÕs Idealism
The
New Republic, March 2021, 46-9
Sidecar,
February 13, 2021
But
I Wanted a Crocodile: Fidel Castro in Harlem
The
London Review of Books, Vol. 43, No. 3, February 4,
2021, 36-9
Republican
Futures: A Reply to Mike Davis
Sidecar,
January 13, 2021
Sidecar,
December 29, 2020
New
Statesman, November 22, 2020, 20-2
Warfare
State: On John Mearsheimer
The
London Review of Books, Vol. 42, No. 21, November 5,
2020, 1-4
Rules
for Yobs: On Martin Amis
New
Statesman, September 11, 2020, 40-3
Anti-Colonial
Embers: On Kamala Harris
The
Guardian, August 23, 2020, 12-3 (with Samuel
Moyn)
The
Guardian Long Read, July 16, 2020, 5-8
The
Point, Issue 22, Summer 2020, 99-105
The
Wages of Realism: On Henry Kissinger
The
New Yorker, May 18, 2020, 58-63
Nuevos Papeles, May 13, 2020, Spanish Translation
Raising
the Dead: On Walter Kempowski
Washington
Examiner, March 12, 2020, 23-4
HarperÕs
Magazine, February 2020, 23-34
Notes for a Left
US Foreign Policy
Foreign
Policy, Winter 2020, 35-9
WhoÕs
Your Dance Partner? Europe Inside Africa
The London Review of Books, Vol. 41, No. 7, November 7, 2019, 35-9
Merkur, Heft 850, Mrz
2020, 17-31, German Translation
Battle
Cry: James Baldwin vs. William F. Buckley Jr.
The
New York Times Sunday Book Review, November 17, 2019,
12
Scavenger of the
Eternal: On Norman Mailer
The
Times Literary Supplement, October 4, 2019, 3-5
The
London Review of Books, Vol. 41, No. 15, August 1,
2019, 5-8
If
the God Shall Not Send Rain
LaphamÕs Quarterly, Volume XII, Number 4, Fall 2019, 192-7
The
American Historical Review, Volume 124, Issue 3, June 2019,
983–995
Lettre International, 126, Herbst
2019, German Translation
Esprit,
Septembre
2020, 61-74, French
Translation
H-Diplo Roundtable Review, Volume XX, No. 44, July 2, 2019
The
Canonization of Richard Holbrooke
The
New Republic, May 2019, 52-5
New
Statesman, March 15-21, 2019, 40-2
Reflections
in the Russian Mirror
American
Affairs, Vol. III, No.1, Spring 2019, 102-12
New
Statesman, January 25, 2019, 12
What
Europeans Talk About When They Talk About Brexit
The
London Review of Books, Vol. 41, No. 1, January 3,
2019, 6
Harry Truman and
the Marshall Plan
The
London Review of Books, Vol. 40, No. 23, December 6,
2018, 23-8
The
Right-Wing Rot at the Heart of the German State
The
New York Times, October 3, 2018, SR7 (with Saskia Schfer)
Kathimerini, October 4, 2018,
3, Greek
Translation
A LÕEncontre, October 7, 2018, French Translation
Universo Online, October 7, 2018, Portuguese
Translation
New
Statesman, September 14-20, 2018, 21-5
In Memoriam:
V.S. Naipaul (1932-2018)
The
Times Literary Supplement, September 7, 2018, 16-7
Politics
vs. Aesthetics: On James Wood
The
Times Literary Supplement, April 4, 2018, 6-8
TrumpÕs
Foreign Policy is Very American
The
New York Times, March 11, 2018, SR7 (with Stephen Wertheim)
Kathimerini, March 14, 2018, 3,
Greek
Translation
Le
Monde Diplomatique, April
2018, 2, German
Translation
Le
Monde Diplomatique, April
2018, 2, Persian
Translation
Doktor Zeitgeist:
Profile of Peter Sloterdijk
The
New Yorker, February 26, 2018, 28-33
Rīgas Laiks, July
2018, 12-5, Latvian
Translation
The
Times Literary Supplement, February 23, 2018, 5-6
Revista Santiago, February 6, 2020, Spanish
Translation
The
Hagiography Factory: On Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
The
London Review of Books, Vol. 40, No. 3, February 8,
2018, 13-5
Western Liberal Agonistes:
On Edward Luce
Australian
Foreign Affairs, Issue 1, October 2017, 122-5
Fancies and
Fears of a Latin Europe: On Wolf Lepenies
New
Left Review, 107, Sept/Oct 2017, 117-129, Spanish Translation
In
MerkelÕs Kingdom: Notes from the 2017 German Federal Election
The
London Review of Books, Vol. 39, No. 18, September
21, 2017, 8-10 (with
Saskia Schfer)
Teutonic
Tremors: The Origins and Rise of the Alternative fr
Deutschland
The
National Interest, Number 150, July/Aug 2017, 52-61
The
London Review of Books, Vol. 39, No. 9, May 4, 2017,
27
In
Memoriam: Robert Silvers, Editor of the New
York Review of Books (1929-2017)
The
Times Literary Supplement, March 31, 2017, 19
Ten Bullets to
One, Twenty to Another: Sri LankaÕs Civil War
The
London Review of Books, Vol. 9 No 3, February 2,
2017, 33-7
Beware
of Defense Intellectuals: On Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter
The
Chronicle of Higher Education, Volume 63, Issue
17, December 11, 2016
GermanyÕs
Darkest Secrets: The Trial of the National Socialist Underground
The
Guardian Long Read, December 15, 2016, 33-35 (with Saskia
Schfer)
GermanyÕs
New Nationalists: The Case of Frauke Petry
The
New Yorker, October 3, 2016, 54-61
And
So It Must Be Forever: Perry AndersonÕs America
The
London Review of Books, Vol. 38 No. 14, July 14, 2016, 5-7
Little
Old Grandfather: Djilas & Stalin
The London Review of Books, Vol. 38.
No. 10, May 19, 2016, 33-5
Marxist
Arkiv, January 20,
2020, Swedish
Translation
The Nice and the Not-so-nice: On Sylvie TissotÕs Good Neighbors
The
Times Literary Supplement, April 6, 2016, 13
Man-Made Time: On
Vanessa OgleÕs The Global Transformation
of Time
The
Times Literary Supplement, March 9, 2016, 7
Michael
BloombergÕs One-Percent Doctrine
Foreign
Policy, February 12, 2016
The
London Review of Books, February 4, 2016, 9
The
Machiavelli of Maryland: On Edward Luttwak
The
Guardian Long Read, December 9, 2015, 33-35
Revista Piau, Edio 115, April 2016, 34-36, Portuguese Translation
The
Revolutionologist: On Michael Walzer
The
Nation, December 7, 2015, 32-38
Filthy Rich and Sumptuously Sad:
On F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Times Literary Supplement,
July 17, 2015, 10-11
The London Review of Books,
May 21, 2015, 28
The
Great Chastening: On John Dunn & Francis Fukuyama
The Nation, March
23, 2015, 32-35
The Nation, June 2, 2014,
30-8 (with Yascha Mounk)
Letras Libres,
December 2014, No. 192,
14-20, Spanish Translation
Kierkegaard
in Iowa: On Marilynne RobinsonÕs Lila
Prospect,
November 2014, No. 224, 74-75
JokowiÕs Way: A Letter from Indonesia
The Nation,
September 22, 2014, 32-35 (with Saskia Schfer)
Everything is Intellect: On Karl Ove
Knausgrd
The Times Literary Supplement, March 21, 2014, 3-4
The Times Literary Supplement, April 4, 2014, 16
The Swaddling Thesis: On Margaret
Mead
The London Review of Books, March 6, 2014, 33-35
Power Down: On Hippocratic Humanitarianism
The Nation, December 9, 2013, 26-40
Interior Designs: On Norman Rush
The Times Literary Supplement, October 18, 2013, 19
The Colonist of Good Will: On Albert Camus
The Nation, September 16, 2013, 27-32
Empire States: On Pankaj Mishra
The Nation, June 3, 2013, 24-27
David Foster Wallace on Planet Trillaphon
The Times Literary
Supplement,
March 13, 2013, 1-3
Chicken Wire and Telephone Calls: On Robert Caro
The Nation, December 10, 2012, 30-36
The
Religion of Science and Its High Priest
The New York Review of Books, October 25, 2012, Vol. 59 No. 16,
56-60
Dream of Drowning:
On Margaret Fuller
The Times Literary Supplement,
October 12, 2012, 10-11
Half-Finished People: Germany
Imagines Hellas
The London
Review of Books, October
11, 2012, Vol. 34 No. 16, 14-16
The
Generalist: On Charles de Gaulle
The Nation, September 12, 2012, 27-32
The Times Literary Supplement, July 25, 2012, 20
Grand
Flattery: On George Kennan
The Nation, May 28, 2012, 27-31 (with Stephen
Wertheim)
Slaughter-House Life: On Kurt Vonnegut
The Times Literary Supplement, March 7 2012, 1-3
Stranger in a Strange Land:
Nietzsche in America
The Wall Street Journal, December 24, 2011, C4
Getting
to Denmark: On Francis Fukuyama
The Nation, August 24, 2011, 33-37
Library Man: On Claude
Lvi-Strauss
The Nation, February 7, 2011, 27-33
Neuro-Stories:
On Marilynne Robinson
The Times Literary Supplement, September 10, 2010, 29
Priapic and Puritan: On John Cheever
The Times
Literary Supplement, April 3,
2009, 3-5