A 97-year-old literature scholar talks to TAI about Germany and the Jews, democracy and autocracy, and his never-ending love affair with fiction.

Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar are not the harbingers of anti-Semitism, Made in U.S.A. The Jewish-American love affair is neither fleeting nor one-sided. It is rooted in the American creed—since 1654.

Forget economic anxiety. Rotterdam is a warning that the emerging political fight across Europe really is about cultural assimilation after all.

Matti Friedman’s Spies of No Country is a compelling tale of Israeli espionage. But more than that, it is a meditation on Israel’s national origin story.

Spain’s far Right populists won’t win the elections tomorrow. But they are winning nonetheless.

The pre-emptive strike on Joe Biden has failed. Will the movement fail with it?

It seems safe to say that the political transformations of Russia, China, and Iran into stable democracies would do more to make Europe, East Asia, and the Middle East zones of peace than any other development.

Conservative jeremiads that condemn liberal democracy as irredeemably flawed damage the cause of freedom at a moment of mounting vulnerability.

Capitalism is still the best economic system humanity has produced. But it is long overdue for reform.

The regimes in Algiers and Rabat survived the original Arab Spring more or less unscathed—but the latest tumult suggests that the old methods of governing may no longer be enough.