
Overcoming Trumpism
Jan 18, 2021 warns that dismissing the outgoing president's supporters as deluded, deplorable, ignorant racists will solve nothing.
Ian Buruma is the author of numerous books, including Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo Van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance, Year Zero: A History of 1945, A Tokyo Romance: A Memoir, and, most recently, The Churchill Complex: The Curse of Being Special, From Winston and FDR to Trump and Brexit.
Jan 18, 2021 warns that dismissing the outgoing president's supporters as deluded, deplorable, ignorant racists will solve nothing.
Jan 8, 2021 asks whether the Republican Party that the US president has made can survive without him at its head.
Dec 24, 2020 asks why President Donald Trump has unleashed an unprecedented spree of federal executions before leaving office.
Dec 2, 2020 examines why so many people, especially in Asia, hoped the outgoing US president would win a second term.
Oct 5, 2020 traces the steady integration of Church adherents into American public life over the past 60 years.
Tackling the COVID-19 pandemic and engineering an economic recovery are only two of the challenges facing new US President Joe Biden. Amid deep social divisions and the continued threat of right-wing extremist violence, Biden must also try to re-establish democratic political norms and restore trust in American leadership at home and abroad.