Europe

Left for Dead

The coalitions that sustained the traditional left parties in the West have collapsed. New ones can be built—but it won’t be easy.

By Yascha Mounk

Unsafe European Home

The refugees keep coming—and the xenophobia keeps intensifying. Can multiculturalism win in Europe?

By Sarah Wildman

The Rumors Have Been Exaggerated

Two new books, by Edward Luce and Bill Emmott, are part of a larger trend of writers and pundits overstating the decline of western liberalism.

By Charles Kenny

Disunited Kingdom

Brexit and the rise of far-right parties are only the conclusion of a decades-long weakening of British and European political parties.

By Henry Farrell

The Old Continent Creaks

Austerity and the failures of the technocratic elite have created the current populist backlash. France's experience is instructive—and, possibly, ominous.

By Arthur Goldhammer