A new book about Hannah Arendt reveals the playful side of one of the 20th century's most celebrated thinkers

The horror of the Holocaust still haunts Eva Schloss. Here she explains why it is more important than ever to spread the message of "never again"

Will a continent turn its back on democracy?

Two new memoirs illuminate Germany's changing relationship to the Holocaust

The tyranny of denial

Frederic Raphael's monthly notebook

Taylor E Dark spent a year teaching at a Russian university where he found a student generation politically apathetic but entrepreneurially vigorous. They even miss classes to go on business trips

Without Nuremberg trials or public memorials to the millions who died in the gulags, post-communist countries cannot come to terms with their past. Anne Applebaum describes the moral and political squalor which results from allowing the criminals of the old…

Australia goes to the polls on 2nd March. Paul Keating's Labour Party came from behind in 1993. It might do so again. Nicolas Rothwell saw the Labour leader finding his voice in the Blue Mountains