Author Archives: Victor Sebestyen

If the EU ignores this assault on democracy, then what is it for?

The 2009 Nobel prize winner, German author Herta Müller, is almost unknown among English speakers. But her tales of totalitarianism must be read

Two new biographies help us to ask one of the great unanswered questions of the last century—what would have happened had Trotsky led the Soviet Union?

Europe's east is less homogenous than it looks—but is united in financial and political worries