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Danubian Reconstruction

SOME time ago, discussing the peace settlement that will some day come, the London Times voiced this warning: "The danger is that revulsion from Hitler's methods and achievements may, at the moment of his defeat, carry us back into the anarchy of a Europe divided herself by a multiplicity of strategic and economic frontiers, and tempt us to renew the cardinal errors of 1919.

Review of "Leopoldstadt," by Tom Stoppard

A salutary history lesson, Leopoldstadt suggests that we can awaken from the nightmare of history only by reclaiming the dignity of its heartache.

Review of "Leopoldstadt," by Tom Stoppard

Since Tom Stoppard’s new play, Leopoldstadt, is a play about history—the supple confusions, the betrayals, the ambushes of history—it might be useful to look at the history it revisits. “You live as if without history,” one character says of another. Only the most heedless could say the same after seeing the play. Set in Vienna […]

The Fall of Austria

Nobel Prizes and Donation Pledges

While living and working in Paris I joined the Cercle Suédois, a social club founded in 1891, at a time when Sweden and Norway were unified in one kingdom. By that time, Alfred Nobel was a frequent g