The month is May 1916. In southern Galicia, now Ukraine, on the Eastern Front of World War I, a twenty-seven-year-old Austrian volunteers for duty in an observation post exposed to enemy gunfire. He ...
I left Beirut in 2006, a month after graduating from medical school. In July that year, war had erupted, or rather been renewed, between Hezbollah and Israel following a cross-border raid by Hezbollah ...
In an influential essay on what he called “post-fascism,” the late Romanian-Hungarian philosopher G. M. Tamás took aim at a new phenomenon overtaking capitalist democracies. “Everywhere there is a ...