Political violence and polarization stalk Europe today, with ominous echoes of the past.
Tag: Nationalism (Theory and Philosophy)
A Would-be Assassin Stirs Europe’s Violent Ghosts
Political violence and polarization stalk Europe today, with ominous echoes of the past.
Wanted in South Korea: Imperialism-Free Cherry Blossoms
Activists want to replace a variety of cherry tree associated with the Japanese colonial era with one they say is Korean. The science is messy.
‘It Is Suffocating’: A Top Liberal University Is Under Attack in India
A campaign to make the country an explicitly Hindu nation has had a chilling effect on left-leaning and secular institutions like Jawaharlal Nehru University.
Modi Opens a Giant Temple in a Triumph for India’s Hindu Nationalists
The temple inaugurated by the prime minister is on the disputed site of a centuries-old mosque destroyed in a Hindu mob attack that set a precedent of impunity in cases of violence against Muslims.
Arno J. Mayer, Unorthodox Historian of Europe’s Crises, Dies at 97
A Jewish refugee from the Nazis, he argued that World War I, World War II and the Holocaust were all part of a “second Thirty Years’ War.”
Sikh Separatism Is a Nonissue in India, Except as a Political Boogeyman
India’s feud with Canada highlights how Prime Minister Narendra Modi has amplified a separatist threat that in reality is largely a diaspora illusion.
Can India’s Global Ambitions Survive Its Deepening Chasms at Home?
India’s hosting of the G20 summit this weekend will put its growing power on display. But its leader’s divisive religious politics threaten its rise.
G20 Invitation Called India ‘Bharat,’ Setting Off Debate
Group of 20 leaders who’ll meet in India got a letter from the “President of Bharat,” a politically charged name for the country that’s popular with Hindu nationalists.
Putin’s Forever War
Vladimir Putin wants to lead Russians into a civilizational conflict with the West far larger than Ukraine. Will they follow him?