Tag: Ian Buruma

The lynching of Libya

By Ian Buruma NEW YORK: Many would say that Col. Muammar El-Qaddafi got…

DNE November 8, 2011

Obama’s Israel problem

By Ian Buruma NEW YORK: On a rare foray outside his native Texas,…

DNE October 11, 2011

Ladies first, women last

By Ian Buruma NEW YORK: Many people still believe that the attacks of…

DNE September 9, 2011

Europe without Turkey

By Ian Buruma AMSTERDAM: Most European citizens (for example, more than 60 percent…

DNE July 8, 2011

All the Queen’s children

By Ian Buruma NEW YORK: Does monarchy — constitutional monarchy, that is, not…

DNE May 5, 2011

Japan’s political tremors

By Ian Buruma NEW YORK: Rarely — indeed, perhaps not since World War…

DNE April 8, 2011

Obama gets it right

By Ian Buruma NEW YORK: US President Barack Obama has been much criticized…

DNE March 8, 2011

Where are the Islamists?

By Ian Buruma NEW YORK: Sometime in the 1980’s, when the communist regime…

DNE February 6, 2011

Israel’s wrong friends

By Ian Buruma JERUSALEM: Israel has been welcoming some rather peculiar visitors of…

DNE January 9, 2011

The last line of decency

By Ian Buruma JERUSALEM: Every Friday afternoon for more than a year, hundreds…

DNE December 13, 2010