An affirming flame : meditations on life and politics / Roger Cohen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cohen, Roger, author.

Contributor:

The Todd and Elizabeth Donovan Endowed Fund.

Standardized Title:

Columns. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World politics--21st century.

World politics.

Civilization, Modern--21st century.

Civilization, Modern.

Journalism--United States.

Journalism.

American essays--21st century.

American essays.

United States.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

xiii, 438 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023.

Summary:

"A collection of the finest New York Times columns written by Roger Cohen, and an extended commentary on the years in which he wrote them"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Columns

One Clear Conscience, Sixty Years After Auschwitz

The Polish Seminary Student and the Jewish Girl He Saved

China Versus U.S.: Democracy Confronts Harmony. Stay Tuned

The MacArthur Lunch

Downtime from Murder

Terror and Demons

A Once and Future Nation

Bamiyan's Buddhas Revisited

Obama's American Idea

Beyond Conspiracy, Progress

Here Comes Kosovo

Karadzic and War's Lessons

In the Seventh Year

The King Is Dead

Iran's Day of Anguish

A Supreme Leader Loses His Aura as Iranians Flock to the Streets

A Journalist's "Actual Responsibility"

The Meaning of Life

Advantage France

The Magic Mountain

A Mideast Truce

A Jew in England

Chinese Openings

A Woman Burns

The Glory of Poland

Modern Odysseys

Change or Perish

A Republic Called Tahrir

My Libya, Your Libya, Our Libya

The Force of the Deed

The Beauty of Institutions

France's Glorious Malaise

Cry for Me, Argentina

The Unlikely Road to War

In Search of Home

From Death into Life

China's Monroe Doctrine

Gettysburg on the Maidan

Poor Angry, Magnetic Europe

Zionism and Its Discontents

Truths of a French Village

The Community of Expulsion

The Consolations of Italy

Western Illusions over Ukraine

The Vast Realm of "If"

Of Catfish Wars and Shooting Wars

Counterrevolutionary Russia

Battered Greece and Its Refugee Lesson

Obama's Doctrine of Restraint

Obama's What Next?

The Danger of Placing Your Chips on Beauty

Trump's Weimar America

The Assassination in Israel That Worked

Ways to Be Free

Syria's White Rose

An Anti-Semitism of the Left

The Map of My Life

Britain's Brexit Leap in the Dark

My Daughter the Pole

We Need "Somebody Spectacular": Views from Trump Country

How Dictatorships Are Born

Broken Men in Paradise

Trump's Many Shades of Contempt

Sons Without Fathers

Daydreaming in Germany

Myanmar Is Not a Simple Morality Tale

The Year Not to Defer Dreams

Holy City of Sterile Streets

One Honorable American's Love of Trump

Death Penalty Madness in Alabama

Trump's World and the Retreat of Shame

How Democracy Became the Enemy

The Insanity at the Gaza Fence

"The Chronicles of Nambia," or Why Trump Knows Nothing of Africa

Of Course, It Could Not Happen Here

McCain and a Requiem for the American Century

An Injudicious Man, Unfit for the Supreme Court

An Insidious and Contagious American Presidency

The Barbarians Are Within

Amos Oz's Rebuke to Cowardice

Why I Am a European Patriot

"Everyone Here Knows Trump Hates Brown People"

Jeremy Corbyn's Anti-Semitic Labour Party

Trump and Conscience in the Age of Demagogues

A Cathedral for a Fragile Age

Robert Mueller in the Age of the Unicorn

"Here There Is Nothing"

Reflections on the Graduation of My Daughter

Steve Bannon Is a Fan of Italy's Donald Trump

The Lessons of Paris and the Violence of Hope

Richard Holbrooke and a Certain Idea of America

Trump's Inhumanity Before a Victim of Rape

Lost and Found in Hemingway's Spain

Two Deaths and My Life

Requiem for a Dream

A Silent Spring Is Saying Something

There Is No Way Out but Through

Come Back, New York, All Is Forgiven

Despotism and Democracy in the Age of the Virus

No Return to "the Old Dispensation"

The Masked Versus the Unmasked

President Trump Is a Doughnut

"Get Your Knee Off Our Necks"

The Outcry over "Both Sides" Journalism

"Let Freedom Ring" from Georgia

Last Testament of Maurice the Rooster

The Most Dangerous Phase of Trump's Rule

The Tenacity of the Franco-American Ideal

Fighting the Virus in Trump's Plague

Trump's Corona Coronation

Trump's Last Stand for White America

Freedom as the Muzzle of a dock

The People Versus Donald Trump

Au Revoir but Not Adieu.

Notes:

"This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf."

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the The Todd and Elizabeth Donovan Endowed Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Cohen, Roger. Columns. Selections Affirming flame.

ISBN:

9780593321522

0593321529

OCLC:

1346125786

Publisher Number:

99993229209