Freedom of speech, freedom to access and produce information, and a hyper-individualized sense of “self”—all symbols of the 20th-century struggle for human rights—have been turned on their head by savvy, repressive regimes.

The future arrived in Russia first, and then spread to the West, with all the now too-familiar negative consequences. But for all its tragedy, there was also a sense of possibility then—as now.

Where does it come from, this Russian need to portray the West as either ideal or enemy?

The Fox News host’s radical relativism is all too familiar to anyone acquainted with Russian propaganda.

The whole grand “Western” narrative of the postwar era is coming unglued. Can we piece together a new one?

Reality is no longer what you think it is.

I would know, because I am one.

Marci Shore’s intimate account of Ukraine’s 2014 revolution probes the metaphysical meaning of revolution. In so doing, it illuminates the crisis of the West more broadly.

Populism is a great campaign tool in the age of social media—but not necessarily much more than that.

As the West considers how to respond to the Kremlin’s use of bots, trolls, fake news, and hacks as tools of foreign policy, the way we describe things will define whether we prevail.