Articles by Ian Buruma
Ian Buruma / July 16, 2015
Thailand is the most open society in southeast Asia. So why have so
many of its governments been overthrown by the military?
Ian Buruma / December 11, 2014
Can China and Japan agree a peaceful balance of power without the US playing policeman?
Ian Buruma / March 27, 2014
A new documentary reveals Donald Rumsfeld as a man burdened neither by reflection nor remorse
Ian Buruma / June 4, 2009
Two decades after the student uprising was crushed, China's rulers have more to fear from the economic crisis than they do from democratic dissidents
Ian Buruma / October 20, 2002
Why did Eric Hobsbawm remain loyal to the blood-soaked communist cause for so long?
Ian Buruma / March 20, 2001
Modern intellectuals should stand up for outcasts. But not by pretending to be outcasts themselves
Ian Buruma / May 20, 2000
Greed and admiration have muted western criticism of Beijing. They are both reasons why this author was not allowed to deliver this lecture to Volkswagen employees in Germany
Ian Buruma / June 20, 1999
There are signs of a new religious fever in China. Ten years after Tiananmen, even some of the dissidents exiled in America are finding a new purpose in evangelical Christianity.
Ian Buruma / April 20, 1999
Ian Buruma was drawn to the Wodehousean world of the Spectator, but its complacency proved to be too much
Ian Buruma / December 20, 1998
Successful nation states have been built not on race, but on liberal political institutions and a dominant language or culture. But the EU is not a nation or a state, and is neither democratic nor...