Dahlia Krutkovich

2 weeks ago | nybooks.com | Dahlia Krutkovich |Caitlin L Chandler

On March 6, 2025, the NYR Online published Caitlin L. Chandler’s dispatch from an uneasy Munich Security Conference. The MSC began during the cold war as an annual summit for West German military brass and their NATO counterparts to coordinate against the Soviet threat. Since then, Chandler notes, it has become known as “Davos with guns,” a convention for CEOs, politicians, defense contractors, policy wonks, and consulting firms to celebrate the transatlantic alliance.

1 month ago | nybooks.com | Dahlia Krutkovich |Joy Neumeyer

Russian human rights organizations estimate that there may be as many as 10,000 political prisoners scattered across the country’s penal colonies. Last summer, Joy Neumeyer wrote to fourteen of these imprisoned dissidents, unsure whether anyone would even receive her messages. To her surprise, some of them wrote back, enclosing heartfelt, roving reflections on their childhoods, their political awakenings, their last moments of freedom, and how they feel about their antiwar activities now.

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Joy Neumeyer |Dahlia Krutkovich

4 hours agoEuropean leaders rally behind Zelensky after Trump clashEuropean leaders have rallied behind Volodymyr Zelensky after Donald Trump's furious exchange with the Ukrainian president in the White House.

Jan 11, 2025 | nybooks.com | Dahlia Krutkovich |Lauren Kane |Magda Teter

In our December 5 issue, Magda Teter reviews a new book ostensibly about the last decades of the Regency of Algiers and “the ties between the land and the sea and between the sea and the history of events, money, and power.” But behind that history, Teter writes, is “a story of the perception of Mediterranean Jewish traders by European and American actors, who projected their sense of superiority over and disdain for both Jews and Muslims.” Teter scrutinizes what more conventional histories...

Nov 17, 2024 | nybooks.com | Joshua Craze |Catherine Coleman Flowers |Omer Bartov |Dahlia Krutkovich

Dahlia Krutkovich • Omer Bartov • Catherine Coleman Flowers • Joshua Craze* Bad-faith accusations of antisemitism on American campuses are not new, but they have exploded with new force in the last year. One example: this April a Yale student shared a video she took at a campus Palestine solidarity demonstration. Surrounded by a group of protest marshals who block her off from the rank-and-file, she films the participants, who chant about university divestment while walking by.