Christopher Caldwell: European Dispatches
Christopher Caldwell's European reporting was among the most prescient journalism published anywhere in the 2000s and 2010s — anticipating debates over immigration, sovereignty, Islam, and populism years before they went mainstream.
11 articles
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Christopher Caldwell
Christopher Caldwell September 19, 2005Caldwell's ten-year retrospective on Europe — what he got right, what surprised him.
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Why Did the French and Dutch Vote No?
Christopher Caldwell June 13, 2005The European Constitution's rejection — and what it revealed about popular sovereignty.
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Saying "Non" to Chirac
Christopher Caldwell May 2, 2005French cultural politics and the limits of European integration.
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Le Showdown
Christopher Caldwell May 7, 2007French electoral politics and the tensions shaping European democracy.
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Stillstandin Deutschland
Christopher Caldwell October 3, 2005Germany's political identity and the stagnation that defined the Merkel era.
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A Culture War Deferred
Christopher Caldwell June 7, 2010Dutch politics and cultural conflict — a preview of what was coming across Europe.
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European Disintegration?
Christopher Caldwell May 23, 2005On the forces pulling the European project apart.
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A Red Tide in the Affairs of Men
Christopher Caldwell June 27, 2005European political upheaval and its deeper causes.
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Waves from the South
Christopher Caldwell September 21, 2015Immigration, the Mediterranean, and the pressures reshaping Europe.
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Italy’s deplorables unite against Europe’s elites
Christopher Caldwell May 25, 2018Italian populism as a revolt against technocratic governance — written in 2018, prophetic in retrospect.
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Europe's Future
Christopher Caldwell December 4, 2006Caldwell's long view on where the European experiment is headed.