Ukraine: Between Hope and Fear

Ukraine: Between Hope and Fear

The Russian war on Ukraine represents the most dangerous development in the world at this moment, more threatening in the short run than climate change or pandemics. The war has raised not only fears but also hopes for millions around the world. While I share the...
Promoting Change in Ukraine and Russia

Promoting Change in Ukraine and Russia

As the war in Ukraine continues to demonstrate, the major strategic blunder of the Twentieth Century was the failure to integrate Russia into the industrialized world. After World War II, the Western community did a great job of integrating Germany and Japan into the...
The Universality of Ukraine

The Universality of Ukraine

The Russian war in Ukraine has dominated headlines in the United States and Europe. It has been presented as a generation-defining event and as a pivot in geopolitics that will cleave world history into a before and an after just like September 11. Much of the world,...
Russia, Ukraine, NATO, and the Left

Russia, Ukraine, NATO, and the Left

It is tough for leftists to be on the same side as the mainstream. We can easily feel at those times that we’re missing something, that we’re letting down the struggle, that by ganging up even on an admittedly bad actor we’re helping strengthen the nemesis at home,...