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Atlantic staff writer weighs Ukraine’s future and widespread threats to global stability.

Peter Gordon's new biography of Walter Benjamin is reviewed in the The New Yorker stating that it "emphasizes his combination of stubborn unworldliness and startling prescience."

Robert Habeck on European security, the Arctic, and why energy independence may be the fastest route to climate progress.

Harvard professor Daniel Ziblatt has been researching the decline of democracies for years. Now he has to watch as his own world crumbles.

CES Director Daniel Ziblatt moderated a flagship session with Prime Minister of Luxembourg Luc Frieden at the 2026 European Conference.

Peter E. Gordon on how invoking the memory of Jewish persecution to denounce the assault on immigrants today is not an offense but a moral imperative.

The 2026 Wintersession on Global Democracy and Citizenship brought fifteen students together to engage with critical questions concerning the pressures facing liberal democracies and evolving developments in transatlantic relations.

Peter E. Gordon reviews Dan Edelstein's new book The Revolution to Come: A History of an Idea from Thucydides to Lenin.

Daniel Ziblatt, Steven Levitsky, and Lucan A. Way on what can be done to reverse democratic decline.

Sven Beckert’s new history traces complex global evolution of system that continues to shift, disrupt even now.