Europe in an Age of Economic Warfare
Abraham Newman explains how the chokepoints of the global economy have become the battlefield upon which interstate tensions play out.
Gina McCarthy in Discussion
The former head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and first National Climate Advisor discusses how to turn the climate crisis into an opportunity.
Truth and Trust in Public Health
Harvey Fineberg considers five dilemmas confronting public-health messaging; introduction by Lothar Wieler, former president of the Robert Koch Institute.
Where Do Novels Come From? Lauren Groff and Lorrie Moore in Conversation with Gregor Dotzauer
In cooperation with the U.S. Embassy Berlin and the English Theatre Berlin
Friends or Something Else? Alliances in War and Peace
Margaret MacMillan examines the nature, dynamics, and types of alliances -- and the reasons why they succeed or fail.
Gender, Genre & Pathetic Literature: A Reading
Eileen Myles’s anthology "Pathetic Literature" (2022) highlights the ways in which the “pathetic” has migrated to poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and theatrical writing.
An Unprecedented Indictment, A World of Political Turmoil
A discussion with "Financial Times" US national editor and columnist Edward Luce, and former US attorney and deputy assistant attorney general Harry Litman. Moderated by Daniel Benjamin, president of the American Academy in Berlin.
Illiberal Human Rights?
Gráinne de Búrca maps out two recent sets of ideological developments and traces how they have sought to reconfigure the postwar international human-rights order into an illiberal rights regime.
Past & Future Cold Wars: Lessons for Winners and Losers
Fred Kaplan discusses how this not-really-quite-a-new-Cold-War is likely to shape the international landscape for decades to come.
The Power of the “Reich” in the German Imagination
John Connelly explores the long-term consequences of Germany’s emergence as a nation that was at once imperial and ethnic.