Who Benefits from the Myth of Pro-War Consensus?
The consensus thesis allows pundits to settle into the comfortable role of brave prophet standing alone against the warmongering tide.
Spring 2025
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On Ukraine
“A quarterly just can’t keep up,” Irving Howe wrote on November 15, 1989, “but we try.”
The History of Sanctions
Nicholas Mulder’s account of the modern economic sanctions regime sheds new light on an era of extreme destabilization and destruction.
The Seeds of War
Putin sees Russian statehood and Russian national and linguistic identity as inextricably connected, and he is willing to spill Russian and Ukrainian blood to protect this nationalist vision.
Our Ukraine
The Russian invasion has forced peaceful, ordinary people to risk their lives. Many are fighting because they believe in a Ukraine that welcomes all its citizens and recognizes the rights they all possess.
A Letter to the Western Left from Kyiv
Why did so many leftists turn a blind eye to Russian aggression?
Returning to Maidan
In the early days, the Maidan protests had been something like a people’s national liberation festival. But by 2014, with war erupting in the east, euphoria and solidarity had been replaced by grief and anger.
Flight Risk
A Ukrainian academic from Donetsk told me last year that the region of eastern Ukraine where Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down is sometimes called the “house of burning stones.” The coal-rich region is home to shallow methane repositories …
Victory Day Turned Sour
As I was heading to Lynn, Massachusetts to celebrate the seventieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War with my eighty-seven-year-old Russian grandmother, the last thing on my mind was the war in Ukraine, and what it might mean for the commemoration of this event today.
The Year in Dissent
For Dissentniks, 2014 was a year of small miracles and stubborn injustices. Thousands of workers demonstrated for a $15-an-hour wage, but a party that hopes to destroy unions won control of both houses of Congress. Marriage equality became law in a …
Putin’s Cold New World
What we have observed in Ukraine confirms that Vladimir Putin’s Russia is irredeemable.
