Opinion & Editorials
Op-Ed: On Poland, Refugee Blackmail, and Cautious Optimism for Liberal Democracy in the EU
Last month, a group of refugees recently arrived from eastern Ukraine gathered beneath the statue of Adam Mickiewicz on Rynek Główny in Krakow’s Old Town to call for peace.
Op-Ed: France’s Far-Right Lost Another Battle, But They Could Still Win the War
After a nearly-successful attempt on his life, followed by a crushing military defeat at the hands of the Prussian Army in 1757, King Louis XV pondered the precarious future of France with four biblical, nihilistic words: “Après moi, le Deluge.”
Op-Ed: For Better or Worse, Germany is Flexing its Muscles Again
Russian President Vladimir Putin managed to single-handedly spark a foreign policy revolution in Germany. Putin’s grotesque invasion of Ukraine