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Ian Buruma

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Ian Buruma, the author of Murder in Amsterdam: the Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance, is professor of democracy and human rights at Bard College, New York. He is the author of the novel The China Lover; his latest book is Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents

December 2016

  • Trump rally

    double quotation markThemes of 2016: across continents, autocrats take control

    Ian Buruma
    Putin, Xi, Modi, Assad – welcome to the world of the strongmen as western will to act begins to crumble

April 2015

  • Günter Grass

    Günter Grass: the man who broke the silence

    Truth-teller, controversialist, affectionate friend – above all, ingenious and inspirational novelist … Orhan Pamuk, John Irving and other writers salute Günter Grass, who died this week

February 2015

  • Utoeya Island where Anders Behring Breivik shootings occured, Norway - 23 Aug 2011

    One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway by Åsne Seierstad – review

    Family dysfunction, sexual failure, grotesque narcissism sad delusions and dreams of martyrdom – the chilling portrait of a killer. By Ian Buruma

March 2014

  • Danish fishermen ferrying Jewish refugees to Sweden in 1943

    Countrymen: The Untold Story of How Denmark's Jews Escaped the Nazis - review

    Why did Jews in some countries - in particular Denmark - fare better than in others? Bo Lidegaard's heart-warming account solves a mystery. By Ian Buruma

September 2013

  • Tako To Ama by Hokusai

    The joy of art: why Japan embraced sex with a passion

    A new exhibition of Japanese erotic art at the British Museum shows how sex was often allied to comedy and political subversion, writes Ian Buruma

March 2011

  • Barack Obama

    double quotation markPresident Obama's valorous discretion

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    Ian Buruma: What do those urging more forceful American 'leadership' want – another Iraq? The US is right to respect self-determination

November 2010

  • Nicholas Bornoff

    Nicholas Bornoff obituary

  • double quotation markWhat is driving China's thuggish approach to foreign relations?

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October 2010

  • double quotation markGeert Wilders and co need Austrian treatment

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    Ian Buruma: The best place to moderate the anti-Muslim populists of Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands might be in government

August 2010

  • double quotation markJapan can't stay postwar forever

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    Ian Buruma: It became rich as America's compliant vassal state. Now Japan's efforts to move on are being thwarted by the US

June 2010

  • Ajax fans

    double quotation markTracing football's tribal roots

    Ian Buruma
    Ian Buruma: The idea competitions like the World Cup inspire warm fraternity is a romantic fiction – they are an outlet for primitive emotions

May 2009

  • liberty central
    double quotation markTorture makes a mockery of the brave

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    Ian Buruma: Those who try to pass off torture as an act of war undermine the armed forces' discipline and morale

April 2009

  • double quotation markChina's burden

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    Ian Buruma: Tibetans are only as oppressed as all Chinese are. Their problem is not one of nationality or discrimination, but lack of democracy

March 2009

  • liberty central
    double quotation markHow free is speech?

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    Ian Buruma: The proper limits of free expression must be constantly tested, contested, and renegotiated

February 2009

  • double quotation markThe 'Jewish conspiracy' in Asia

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    Ian Buruma: Few Chinese, Japanese, Malaysians, or Filipinos have ever seen a Jew – and yet antisemitism persists

December 2008

  • double quotation markEnd of the neocons

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    Ian Buruma: The neoconservative movement will no longer influence US foreign policy when George Bush and Dick Cheney leave office

November 2008

  • double quotation markEurope's Obamamania

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    Ian Buruma: Obama wins: The president-elect is seen as something more than an American – he looks like a citizen of the world

September 2008

  • double quotation markRemote control warfare

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    Ian Buruma: Europeans criticise the US for military intervention, but rely on it when crisis strikes: they can't have it both ways

August 2008

  • double quotation markThe death of a nation

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    Ian Buruma: The fate of Belgium should interest all Europeans, since what is happening there now could be repeated on a continental scale

June 2008

  • double quotation markNo more war games

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    Ian Buruma: Euro 2008 revealed a more united Europe, in which memories of past conflicts and aggression are being buried ever deeper

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