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 English in special edition of Transit, November 2004, “Ukraine: An Opportunity for Europe.”
• “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