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1 month ago | 
foreignaffairs.com | Nicolas Véron |Maria Lipman |Andrew Moravcsik
In 2012, responding to the eurozone debt and financial crisis, European leaders agreed to create a banking union. They transferred oversight of the EU’s big banks from national supervisors to a single European supervisor, the European Central Bank. Véron uses official reports, secondary sources, and participant interviews to describe the negotiations leading up to this decision. The crisis, he shows, underscored the problems of decentralized supervision.
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1 month ago | 
foreignaffairs.com | Danny Dorling |Andrew Moravcsik
Not since the Great Depression has inequality in the United Kingdom been as high as it is today. In this regard, the country more closely resembles the United States than its European neighbors. No one has been hit harder than the young; the United Kingdom has the most steeply rising level of child poverty of all developed countries. This disturbing book, inspired by the famous television series Seven Up!, follows seven British children born in 2018.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Paul Starobin |Andrew Moravcsik |Frank Trentmann |Simon Kuper
In This Review In This Review Putin’s Exiles: Their Fight for a Better RussiaRussia has produced waves of exiles: liberal Decembrists fled in the early nineteenth century, Marxists and anarchists in the early twentieth century, and anticommunists through much of the twentieth century. Since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, over one million Russians have left the country, including tech workers and Orthodox priests.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Frank Trentmann |Andrew Moravcsik |Simon Kuper |Frank Trentmann Knopf
In This Review In This Review Out of the Darkness: The Germans, 1942–2022This rich history traces the “moral transformation of Germany” from the depths of Nazism to its liberal present. Germans, Trentmann argues, turn “all social, economic and political problems into moral ones.” The book begins in 1942 with a description of how individual Germans resisted the growing sense of their culpability for World War II by insisting on their personal innocence.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
operatoday.com | Andrew Moravcsik
All three acts of Giacomo Puccini’s Madama Butterfly take place in a tiny Japanese cottage on an isolated hill overlooking Nagasaki. Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton, an American naval officer, has purchased this modest dwelling for Cio-Cio San, a 15-year-old Japanese geisha whom he already plans to abandon. As the final curtain falls, she commits ritual suicide.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
operatoday.com | Andrew Moravcsik
Giuseppe Verdi’s Rigoletto tells the story a small community in which one man’s absolute and arbitrary power eventually corrupts everyone around him. The tragedy is universal: if you find it difficult to identify with Renaissance Mantua, think back to your worst memories of middle school. Chicago Lyric Opera’s well-cast production conveys the opera’s power and passion as vividly as any I have heard live in recent years.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Cameron Abadi |Andrew Moravcsik |Simon Kuper |Edward Anderson
In This Review In This Review Climate Radicals: Why Our Environmental Politics Isn’t WorkingAbadi addresses an epochal issue of the times: how to maintain a domestic consensus for combating climate change. Much of this readable book is devoted to an anecdote-filled and engaging analysis of the radical ideology and unorthodox tactics employed by fringe protesters in Germany, whom the author criticizes for lacking pragmatism.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Edward Anderson |Andrew Moravcsik |Simon Kuper |Armin Schäfer
In This Review In This Review Hindu Nationalism in the Indian Diaspora: Transnational Politics and British MulticulturalismThe transnational influence of right-wing nationalist authoritarians has become a major concern in Europe and North America. One puzzle is that diaspora communities often offer strong support to such figures. Turkish communities in Germany and the Netherlands, for instance, have offered vociferous support for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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Aug 3, 2024 | 
operatoday.com | Andrew Moravcsik
With New York’s Metropolitan Opera struggling to hype star singers, commission enduring new works, fill a mammoth space, and balance its budget, the vitality of the city’s opera scene has passed to smaller companies. Among the most exciting is Teatro Nuovo. The company’s director, Will Crutchfield, is an indefatigable conductor and musicologist specializing in the Italian bel canto. With Teatro Nuovo, he continues pioneering work done for two decades at the Caramoor Festival.
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Jun 26, 2024 | 
operatoday.com | Andrew Moravcsik
On its face, no opera seems trashier than Così fan tutte. Two best bros bet on the fidelity of their young fiancées, disguise themselves as exotic strangers, and try to seduce each other’s girl. To their surprise, they succeed within the day: the two ladies enthusiastically agree to marry their new suitors. Beneath the surface, however, Così among the most subtle, profound and modern of operas.
