Ian Buruma

In zijn nieuwe boek over filosoof Baruch Spinoza trekt de schrijver duidelijke parallellen met onze tijd.

Let’s hope that historians in the years to come won’t conclude that the West was too complacent and too lacking in imagination to realize that Putin’s continued hold on power in Russia could not survive with a free, Western-oriented Ukraine on its borders. Instead, let’s hope that historians recount how today’s leaders stood up to the dictator, writes Roberta N. Haar.