Europe Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/europe/ a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:17:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.publicbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-favicon-2-300x300.png Europe Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/europe/ 32 32 “We Thought We Were Living in an Enlightened Age”: Talking with Artem Chapeye https://www.publicbooks.org/we-thought-we-were-living-in-an-enlightened-age-talking-with-artem-chapeye/ Wed, 27 Sep 2023 15:00:18 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=53519 “Many people who call themselves very patriotic, even nationalist, leave [Ukraine], while the people who are actually protecting it are the common people.”

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]]> Small Nations, Big Feelings https://www.publicbooks.org/small-nations-marcia-davenport-czechoslovakia/ Thu, 27 Oct 2022 15:00:37 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=50527 In the 1930s, Americans fell in love with Czechoslovakia and Spain; today, it’s Ukraine. What happens when one finds a “second mother country”?

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]]> Ta-Nehisi Coates on Tony Judt https://www.publicbooks.org/primary-sources-ta-nehisi-coates-on-tony-judt/ Mon, 09 May 2022 15:00:18 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=48367 “Writers are being made to carry the weight of politicians.”

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]]> Why Play at Orientalism? https://www.publicbooks.org/why-play-at-orientalism/ Thu, 24 Jun 2021 15:00:49 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=43966 Games like Crusader Kings III build feudalism into their code, and in so doing assert the supremacy of the modern global North.

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]]> Energy “Realism” Is Climate Fatalism https://www.publicbooks.org/energy-realism-is-climate-fatalism/ Thu, 13 May 2021 15:00:28 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=43092 Americans may not want to hear this, but it might be best if the US is not the country leading the world through the climate crisis.

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]]> Precarity and Struggle: Kafka, Roth, Kraus https://www.publicbooks.org/precarity-and-struggle-kafka-roth-kraus/ Wed, 10 Mar 2021 16:00:38 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=41611 In their writings, Kafka, Roth, and Kraus rejected the ideology of rootedness that was rapidly encroaching upon early 20th-century European consciousness.

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]]> Minorities and Myths: Antisemitism in Europe after 1919 https://www.publicbooks.org/minorities-and-myths-antisemitism-in-europe-after-1919/ Wed, 27 Jan 2021 16:00:49 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=40920 Why were Jews not free from antisemitism anywhere in interwar Europe, even in places—like the USSR—where it was officially condemned?[none-for-homepage]

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]]> J. M. Keynes and the Visible Hands https://www.publicbooks.org/j-m-keynes-and-the-visible-hands/ Mon, 25 Jan 2021 16:00:38 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=40803 In 1919, those crafting the fate of postwar Europe wanted their designs to be hidden from view. Fortunately, Keynes had other plans.

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]]> How Versailles Still Haunts the World https://www.publicbooks.org/how-versailles-still-haunts-the-world/ Mon, 25 Jan 2021 15:59:50 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=40807 Middle Eastern borders, democratic defeats, the US War on Terror: all this flows from the Treaty of Versailles, now just over a century old.

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]]> Who Killed Nordic Noir? https://www.publicbooks.org/who-killed-nordic-noir/ Tue, 12 Jan 2021 16:00:13 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=40525 Scandinavian crime novels once showed how society failed its citizens. Today, the genre innovates differently—by depicting more violence.

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