Ian Buruma is Professor of Democracy, Human Rights, and Journalism at Bard College. He is the author of numerous books, including Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo Van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance and Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents.
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Commentaries by Ian Buruma
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Turkey’s Class Struggle
NEW YORK – One interpretation of the anti-government demonstrations now roiling Turkish cities is that they are a massive protest against po…
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America’s Enemy Within
NEW YORK – Barring any unexpected new revelations, there is not much to be learned from the Tsarnaev brothers, better known as “the Boston b…
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The Trouble with North Korea
NEW YORK – Nobody would care much about North Korea – a small and isolated country of 24 million people, ruled by a grotesque dynasty that c…
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Send in the Clowns
NEW YORK – When too many Italians voted late last month for either a louche and discredited business tycoon or a comedian, European stock ma…
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Does Europe Need Britain?
NEW YORK – Many people in the United Kingdom believe that their country can do perfectly well outside the European Union. Members of the UK …
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The Pope’s Dangerous Sex Appeal
NEW YORK – Human sexual behavior can be perilous, as the ghastly rape of a 23-year-old woman by six men on a Delhi bus in December once agai…
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The Observer State of Palestine
NEW YORK – Palestine is no longer an “entity,” but a state – or, to be precise, a non-member observer state of the United Nations, just like…
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A Democratic Hurricane
NEW YORK – Nothing concentrates the mind like a full-blown crisis. Like millions of other people in New York City, I heard Hurricane Sandy r…
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American Presidential Beauty
NEW YORK – What is the point of a presidential debate? In the context of American presidential elections, “debate” is something of a misnome…
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East Asia’s Nationalist Fantasy Islands
TOKYO – They don’t look like much, those few uninhabited rocks in the East China Sea between Okinawa and Taiwan, and a couple of tiny islets…
Turkey’s Class Struggle
Carol Maczinsky: turkey is a minor democracy but a NATO member, that says it all. Of course it does not qualify to become an EU member state.
Turkey’s Class Struggle
mehmet öz: Mr. Leo Arouet, I agree to what you say, however, as he Mr. TJ Leatherman said, the Kemalists in Turkey did a great persecution to the public for many years. Compare it to North Korea, a dictatorsh…