Ian Buruma

Could the fall of dis­graced par­ty leader Bo Xi­lai lead to a more open so­ci­ety, less hos­tile to dis­si­dent voic­es?

Qual­i­ty jour­nal­ism has suf­fered as the in­ter­net al­lows in­di­vid­u­als to se­lect ‘truth’ based on their prej­u­dices.

Much po­lit­i­cal rhetoric, and a spate of new books, would have us be­lieve that the US is in a dan­ger­ous state of funk.

Eu­rope’s cur­rent cri­sis stems from a lack of cross-bor­der sol­i­dar­i­ty or any sense of be­long­ing in the supra-na­tion­al EU.

What is it about Is­rael that caus­es the Amer­i­can pres­i­dent and politi­cians to be afraid of crit­i­cis­ing Is­raeli poli­cies?

Dif­fi­cult ques­tions are raised by the charges against Mladic – geno­cide or eth­nic cleans­ing? And why does it mat­ter?

A po­ten­tial break­down of pub­lic trust in gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials could lead to wide­spread re­gres­sion in de­mo­c­ra­t­ic re­form.

Oba­ma’s seem­ing in­ac­tion over the protests sweep­ing the Mid­dle East is ex­act­ly what he needs to do – that is, noth­ing.

The West must ac­cept the re­sults of elec­tions if it wants to avoid mar­gin­al­i­sa­tion and rad­i­cal­i­sa­tion of op­pos­ing views.