Black Earth
Slate Fr.: “La Vrai Mise en Garde de la Shoah.” – October 17, 2015.
Tablet: “The Ghetto is Here.” -October 12, 2015.
El País: “Las lecciones del Holocausto.” – October 11, 2015.
Slate: “The Banality of Good: Why People who Rescued Jews During WWll Found it so Difficult to Explain Their Motives.” – October 8, 2015.
Le Monde: “Le prochain génocide sera écologique.” – October 4, 2015.
Salon: “So Much Worse than Auschwitz: ‘People Not Very Different From Us Murdered Other People Not Very Different From Us at Close Quarters.’” – October 3, 2015.
Slate: “History’s True Warning: How Our Misunderstanding of the Holocaust Offers Moral Cover For the Geopolitical Disasters of Our Time.” – September 23, 2015.
Newsweek: “Ongoing Genocide: The Lessons of the Holocaust and the Fate of the Yazidi.” -September 21, 2015.
Guardian: “Hitler’s World May Not Be So Far Away.” – September 16, 2015.
Boston Globe: “Warnings from Another Refugee Crisis.” – September 14, 2015
New York Times: “The Next Genocide,” September 12, 2015
Other
- “Eric Hobsbawm,” CNN – October 1, 2012
- “Keeping our Heads,” The New Republic – August 24, 2012
- “Granice historii narodowych” [“The Limits of National History”] Tygodnik Powszechny – May 22, 2012
- “The Overwhelming Realism of ‘In Darkness’”, New Yorker Culture Desk – February 22, 2012
- “Cruelty and Collapse,” The New Republic – October 12, 2011
- “A Dangerous Misreading of the Boston Tea Party from Right Wing Anarchists,”Guardian (Comment is Free), 19 August 2011
- “Lithuania Neglects the Memory of its Murdered Jews,” Guardian (Comment is Free), 29 July 2011
- “The Birth of Nations in the Balkans,” – IWM Post, no. 107, 2011
- “The Coming Age of Slaughter,” The New Republic – October 28, 2010
- Polish: Res Publica Nova – Spring 2011
- German: Transit, no. 41 – 2011
- “Stalin, Our Contemporary,” in twenty-nine newspapers in twelve languages – 2010-2011
- “Історика заарештувати простіше, ніж подолати проблему корупції,” Glavred (Kiev) – November 2010
- “No, They’re Not a ‘Hitler’ or a ‘Stalin’,” International Herald Tribune – November 16, 2010
- “Нацизм и сталинизм – не одно и то же!” Rosbalt, St. Petersburg – Oct. 29, 2010
- “The Reich’s Forgotten Atrocity,” Guardian (Comment is Free) – October 21, 2010
- “Why laptops in class are distracting America’s future workforce,” Christian Science Monitor – October 8, 2010
- “The Fatal Fact of the Nazi-Soviet Pact,” Guardian (Comment is Free) – October 5, 2010
- “Echoes from the Killing Fields of the East,” Guardian (Comment is Free) – September 28, 2010
- “Sprzeczności Wasyla Wyszywanego,” Nowa Europa Wschodnia – Aug 2010
- “Ghosts: Could the plane crash bury Stalinism forever?” The New Republic – April 17, 2010
- “Rzecz o Tomaszu Mercie,” on the death of the conservative writer and policy maker Tomasz Merta, Gazeta Wyborcza – April 16, 2010
- Introduction to “Mit der Straßenbahn zum Kinderheim,” interview of Henryka Krzywonos by Sławomir Sierakowski, Transit – 2009
- “Obama and Wojtyła,” Dialogue and Universalism, nos. 3-5 – 2009
- “Czerwony Książę,” Tygodnik Powszechny (Cracow) – December 9, 2008
- “War is from Mars, Love is From Venus,” Boston Globe – November 12, 2008
- “Der Rote Prinz,” Die Presse (Vienna): – September 12, 2008
- “History Does not End, Nor Do its Hard Lessons,” Chicago Tribune – August 17, 2008
- “Grappling with an Emboldened Russia,” Boston Globe – August 12, 2008
- “In the shadow of Emperors and General Secretaries: On the origins of the nations of East Central Europe” (“W cieniu cesarzy i sekretarzy”), Tygodnik Powszechny 27 – July 2008
- Ukrainian translation: Zakhidna analitychna hrupa: “V tini imperatoriv i sekretariv,” – August 2,2008
- “A Call to Be More Civil,” Christian Science Monitor – June 20, 2008
- “How is the KGB Bar Possible?” (Response to Alexander Motyl), Transit 25 – 2008
- “A Legend of Freedom: Solidarity,” (“Legenda o wolnośći”) Tygodnik Powszechny, special edition on Solidarity – September 4, 2005
- “Was hält Europa zusammen,” Transit: Europäische Revue (Vienna)
- English reprints: Index on Censorship, “Balancing the Books?” (2005); Krzysztof Michalski, ed, The Spiritual Identity of Europe, Budapest: Central European Press – 2005
- German: Eurozine: “Vereintes Europa, geteilte Geschichte,” – May 2005
- Lithuanian: Kulturos barai, – March 2009
- “Eine Chance für Europe: Die EU ist in der Ukraine als Schutzmacht der Demokratie gefordert,” Der Standard, Vienna, 26 November 2004
- “In die Falle getappt (über das Rätsel der Wiederwahl des George W. Bush),” Falter (Vienna), November 12, 2004
- “War is Peace,” Prospect No. 104 – November 2004
- German: Transit: Europäische Revue 28: “George Orwell trifft George Bush,” – 2005
- Polish: Tygodnik Powszechny 31: “’Rok 1984′ czytany w roku 2004” – October 2004
- Czech: Lidové Noviny 13: “Jak číst 1984 v roce 2004,” – October 30, 2004
- Turkish: Vizon – December 2004
- Russian: Literaturnaia gazeta 3 – 2005
- “The Ethnic Cleansing of Volhynia, 1943″ (“Wołyń, rok 1943), Tygodnik Powszechny (Cracow) – May 11, 2003
- “Polnisches Ostpolitik — Tradition mit Zukunft,” Transit: Europäische Revue (Vienna) 25 – 2003
- “Federalism and Nationalism in Polish Eastern Policy,” Georgetown Journal of International Affairs 4, no. 1 – 2003
- “Protestoval bi Bohdan Khmelnyts’kyi protiv priezda Papy Rims’kogo?” (“Would Bohdan Khmelnyts’kyi Protest the Papal Visit?”), Vechernie Vesti (Kyiv) – June 18, 2002
- “Five Centuries and Eight Years: Operation Vistula and the homogeneity of Polish society” (Pięć wieków i osiem lat: ““Akcja ‘Wisła’ a homogeniczność polskiego społeczeństwa”), Tygodnik Powszechny – April 2002.
- Reprinted in Nowy Dziennik (New York) – May 12, 2002
- “Die neuen Mitteleuropäer,” Transit: Europäische Revue (Vienna), no. 21 – 2001
- “Why Missile Defense is a Bad Idea,” Christian Science Monitor, February 2, 2001, with Philip Snyder.
- Czechs, Poles Ten Years On.
- Polish: Gazeta Wyborcza – 28 October 1999
- Czech: Britské listy – February 1999
- Summarized in French in L’Evénement – 1 February 1999
- Belarusian: Epokha, December 1998
- “The Transforming Search for a Pumpkin in Prague,” Christian Science Monitor – October 28, 1998
- “Look East, Face West: Poland’s Eastern Policy and EU Enlargement,” Transitions 5, no. 9 – September, 1998
- “Poland’s Hot Summer of Decommunization,” Transitions, 5 – June 6, 1998
- “W poszukiwaniu wschodniego interesu (In Search of the Eastern Interest),” Unia-Polska (Warsaw), Number 1 – 1998
- “Poland’s Return to Europe is a Leap to Modernity,” Christian Science Monitor – May 21, 1998
- “What Americanization Has to Do With America,” Christian Science Monitor – April 29, 1998
- “A Divided Ukraine Drifts Neither East nor West,” Christian Science Monitor – March 31, 1998
- “NATO Expansion: A Bear at Rest Means a Safer U.S.,” Christian Science Monitor – March 18, 1998
- “Czy są konserwatiści w Polsce? (Are There Conservatives in Poland?), Res Publica Nowa (Warsaw) – November 1997
- “Kelles-Krauz: socjologia, socjalizm, naród (Kelles-Krauz: Sociology, Socialism, and the Nation), Spoleczeństwo otwarte (Warsaw), no.5: – 1995
- “Czy obywatele nie potrzebują ojczyzny? (Don’t Citizens Need a Fatherland?),” Spoleczeństwo otwarte (Warsaw), no.7: – 1994: 21-24
- “Poland’s Communists Aren’t, Really,” Christian Science Monitor – November 1, 1993
- “Reasons for Optimism in Socialist Poland,” San Francisco Chronicle – September 27, 1993
- “Making the Peace Dividend Pay Off,” The Guardian – April 6, 1993 (with Gareth Cook)
- “The Domestic Meaning of Clinton’s Foreign Policy,” Dayton Daily News – January 5, 1993
- “Western Economic Might Key to Helping East,” Christian Science Monitor, 2 January 1993
- “The Problems of Monopoly,” The Guardian – March 9, 1992
- “Anti-Trust for the USSR,” Christian Science Monitor – October 2, 1991
- “What Soviet Economic Collapse Can Teach US Managers,” Christian Science Monitor – August 30, 1991