Timothy Garton Ash

Second Time as Tragedy

“The only way this war can end well is if the Ukrainians recover most of their territory.”

Ukraine in Our Future

Ukraine faces extraordinary challenges, but it also presents a challenge for Europe—and a great opportunity.

Time for a New Liberation?

Central Europe had its revolution in 1989. What it needs now is a great reform.

Jesus Rex Poloniae

It’s the Kultur, Stupid

Xenophobic right-wing nationalism—in Germany of all places?

On Robert Silvers

Nineteen writers remember The New York Review’s editor.

Is Europe Disintegrating?

Did the post-wall era end, sometime between the high point of 2005 and the low of today?

Defying the Assassin’s Veto

Where the heckler’s veto says merely “I will shout you down,” the assassin’s version is “dare to express that and we will kill you.”

Censored!

From the Lighthouse: The World and the NYR After Fifty Years

The New German Question

‘Choices for an Uncrowned Queen’

Insult the King and… Go Directly to Jail

India: Watch What You Say

Freedom & Diversity: A Liberal Pentagram for Living Together

Germans, More or Less

Tony Judt (1948–2010)

Tony Judt (1948–2010)

The poet Paul Celan said of his native Czernowitz that it was a place where people and books used to live. Tony Judt was a man for whom books lived, as well as people. His mind, like his apartment on Washington Square, was full of books—and they walked with him, arguing, to the very end.

Velvet Revolution: The Prospects

1989!