2026
May
Donald Trump’s definition of “beauty”, The New Statesman, 27 May 2026
Orbán’s Fall, London Review of Books, 7 May 2026
A Hungarian Playbook for Defeating Populists?, Project Syndicate, 4 May 2026
April
Who Lost America’s Universities?, Project Syndicate, 30 April 2026
A ballroom bunker is a perfect symbol for Trump 2.0, The Guardian, 30 April 2026
A New Type of Democratic Transition, Project Syndicate, 10 April 2026
At a Budapest Scruton Café, London Review of Books, 7 April 2026
Two Trump moves last week could kill off future accountability for his deeds, The Guardian, 7 April 2026
March
Pete Hegseth is promoting a nihilist cult of death, The Guardian, 23 March 2026
The Vulnerability of Trump’s Personality Cult, Project Syndicate, 17 March 2026
What Jürgen Habermas leaves behind, The New Statesman, 16 March 2026
Christian Democracy Is Facing Regime Change, Foreign Policy, 13 March 2026
When it comes to ending elite impunity, the US could learn from the UK, The Guardian, 3 March 2026
February
Beware of ‘anti-woke’ liberals: they attacked the left and helped Trump win, The Guardian, 3 February 2026
January
The High Cost of Trump’s Amateur Diplomats, Project Syndicate, 12 January 2026
A congresswoman wants to impeach Kristi Noem. She’s right to do so, The Guardian, 11 January 2026
The Trump doctrine exposes the US as a mafia state, The Guardian, 7 January 2026
2025
December
Caesar wept, London Review of Books, 4 December 2025
November
What Rosa Parks can teach us about resistance today, The Guardian, 29 November 2025
Trump is turning the US military into a political prop, The Guardian, 17 November 2025
October
Trump’s megalomaniac White House project fits a global trend among far-right populists, The Guardian, 26 October 2025
September
US universities must reject Trump’s ‘compact’. It is full of traps, The Guardian, 7 October 2025
How the Democrats Can “Win” the US Government Shutdown, Project Syndicate, 6 October 2025
Violence As Policy in Trump’s America, Project Syndicate, 12 September 2025
August
Right-Wing Culture Warfare Comes to Germany, Project Syndicate, 13 August 2025
July
Why Trump’s political playbook is failing in the Epstein case, The Guardian, 24 July 2025
America’s famed ‘checks-and-balances’ governance system is failing, The Guardian, 16 July 2025
Trump Is Trying to Build a Far-Right International, Project Syndicate, 15 July 2025
June
How a Nazi Jurist Captured Imaginations on the U.S. Left and Right, Foreign Policy, 30 June 2025
Do protesters have a right to wear masks? Yes – despite Trump’s double standard, The Guardian, 11 June 2025
Will the Trump-Musk rift really change anything?, The Guardian, 9 June 2025
Trump's Corruption Is in a League of Its Own, Project Syndicate, 2 June 2025
May
Trump’s revenge spree on Harvard echoes well beyond education, The Guardian, 26 May 2025
On the Educational Case for Encampments, London Review of Books, 9 May 2025
April
On Francis, Vance, Rory Stewart, St. Augustine, Post-Liberalism, and Christian Democracy, The Guardian, 23 April 2025
What, if anything, makes Protests effective?, The Guardian, 22 April 2025
On Universities Resisting the Trump Administration, The Guardian, 18 April 2025
On the Le Pen verdict, Project Syndicate, April 2025
How Trump's Tariffs Fit the Autocrat's Playbook, The New Yorker, 11 April 2025
March
On defending academic freedom in the US, The Guardian, 18 March 2025
"No one is further right than me" (On Italy under Meloni), London Review of Books, March 2025
On the Dangers of Trump Concentrating Power -- and the Judges Who Might Support a Unitary Executive, The Guardian, 17 March 2025
"America's Grotesquely Mediocre Emperor" (On analogizing Trumpism and Caesarism/Bonapartism), Project Syndicate, March 2025
On Hypocrisy (and Zelenskyy and Trump), The Guardian, 4 March 2025
February
"Is Protest Dead?", Foreign Policy, February 2025
A Strategy for Pushing Back against Trump/Musk, The Guardian, 21 February 2025
"Normalizing the Normalization of the Far Right", Project Syndicate, February 2025
On Trump, Autocracy, and Education, The Guardian, 6 February 2025
January
Confronting the Pandemic's Toxic Political Legacy, Project Syndicate, January 2025
On Oligarchy, The Guardian, 22 January 2025
2024
December
Jimmy Carter's life after the presidency set a bar that few others have reached, The Guardian, 30 December 2024
Destruction Through Inclusion, The New York Review of Books, 19 December 2024
September
The US right keeps accusing Democrats of ‘communism’. What does that even mean?, The Guardian, 5 September 2024
August
Germany’s hard-right architecture, New Statesman, 31 August 2024
Make Europe Great Again, The New York Review, 20 August 2024
JD Vance is the baby of big tech and big oil. He’s no ‘working-class populist, The Guardian, 1 August 2024
July
Trump is an authoritarian who must not win. Saying that is not inciting violence, The Guardian, 16 July 2024
JD Vance is a rightwing troll disguised as a populist. He could be our next vice-president, The Guardian, 9 July 2024
Why Macronism Failed, Project Syndicate, 1 July 2024
June
The Enduring Influence of Europe's Far Right, Project Syndicate, 7 June 2024
May
Student emcampments have the potential to strengthen US democracy, The Guardian, 4 May 2024
Is 'the Media' Really Under Attack?, Foreignpolicy.com, 3 May 2024
April
A Tale of Two Megalopolises, Foreignpolicy.com, 20 April 2024
On the square, Sage Journals, 8 April 2024
March
The Zombification of Political Parties, Project Syndicate, 15 March 2024
Trump’s love for Viktor Orbán hints at what another Trump term will look like, The Guardian, 12 March 2024
February
Protest Problems, London Review of Books, Vol. 46 No.3, 8 February 2024
The Case for Banning Anti-Democratic Candidates, Project Syndicate, 1 February 2024
January
Charismatic leaders plus hollowed-out parties are a bad recipe for democracy, Financial Times, 20 January 2024
Liberalism's Forever Crisis, Project Syndicate, 5 January 2024
The Myth of Social Media and Populism, Foreignpolicy.com, 3 January 2024
2023
December
Is barring Trump from office undemocratic? Let’s assess point by point, The Guardian, 21 December 2023
Is Europe Broken?, Project Syndicate, 20 December 2023
When Election Losers Pretend to Be Winners, Project Syndicate, 13 December 2023
A second Trump term will be far more autocratic than the first. He’s telling us, The Guardian, 4 December 2023
November
Poland after PiS, London Review of Books, Vol. 45 No.22, 16 November 2023
October
How the European Project Fell Apart, Foreignpolicy.com, 29 October 2023
Mainstreaming the Far Right, Project Syndicate, 20 October 2023
The Great Turn Inward, Foreignpolicy.com, 1 October 2023
September
Democracies Are Not Backsliding, Project Syndicate, 27 September 2023
"It's elites who turn against democracy, not the people" Talk Europe!, YouTube.com, 27 September 2023
June
Opinion: How weakened local journalism created space for the culture wars, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2023
Trump, Johnson and the real problem with populism, Financial Times, 17 June 2023
May
Populist Architecture Is a Problem That Will Outlive Populists, Foreign Policy.com, 20 May 2023
2021
Biden is Selling Democracy Short, New York Times, 9 December 2021
Can the Center Hold Any Meaning?, Project Syndicate, November 2021
Prussian Disneyland, London Review of Books, 9 September 2021