Claire Berlinski

Writer, Researcher, and Journalist

Paris

Novelist, essayist, journalist, historian, travel writer, biographer, critic.

Claire Berlinski

Writer, Researcher, and Journalist

Paris

Novelist, essayist, journalist, historian, travel writer, biographer, critic.

https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2011/01/24/agents-influence/
Bless the Beasts
The Bond: Our Kinship with Animals, Our Call to Defend Them, by Wayne Pacelle (William Morrow, 423 pp., $26.99) Some virtues are by accidents of history associated with utopianism, hostility to private property, anti-clericalism, and other core beliefs of
National Review
Decline All Around
In 1995, on a whim, I answered a help-wanted ad in the back of The Economist and landed a job as an editor with a start-up newspaper in Bangkok consecrated to the goal of countering the White Man’s neo-imperialist journalism. The newspaper was the origina
National Review
Defining Democracy Down
On July 15, a cabal of rogue officers attempted to overthrow the Turkish government. Had the putschists been staunch secularists, the bloody fiasco would have confirmed the thesis of author Shadi Hamid’s new book: The failure of democracy to take root in
National Review
Ergenekon: Turkey’s Conspiracy to End Them All
FIRST POST, NOVEMBER 13, 2008 The Turkish Trial of the Century opened last month among scenes of pandemonium. With 86 defendants present, proceedings were temporarily adjourned for lack of space. The indictment against the alleged members of Ergenekon num
berlinski.com
Since Feb. 24, when Russia launched its all-out invasion of Ukraine, we’ve heard from many quarters that Europe is united as never before. “Fifteen years ago, during the financial crisis, it took us years to find lasting solutions,” said European Commissi
POLITICO
http://www.thetower.org/3526-did-the-white-house-fully-grasp-russias-looming-role-in-syria/?fbclid=IwAR3zZD9GN990kt1TePQj2L1ZnsDpZn2pgNG9ejm5ftDbTN3bgAnaZ67b5QE
http://www.thetower.org/3526-did-the-white-house-fully-grasp-russias-looming-role-in-syria/?fbclid=IwAR3zZD9GN990kt1TePQj2L1ZnsDpZn2pgNG9ejm5ftDbTN3bgAnaZ67b5QE
The Notorious Madame S.
THE RED WIDOW: The Scandal That Shook Paris and the Woman Behind It, by Sarah Horowitz Although she is not universally known to Americans, Marguerite Steinheil is a household name in France, the subject of books, plays and television specials — and with s
New York Times
The Next Iron Lady?
How new Prime Minister Theresa May compares to Margaret Thatcher, the first woman to lead the U.K. Theresa May has now succeeded David Cameron as U.K. prime minister, becoming only the second female prime minister in British history. The first, of course,
Manhattan Institute
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/the-cold-wars-arab-spring
Is God Still Dead?
Claire Berlinski on The Twilight of Atheism by Alister McGrath and Icarus Fallen: The Search for Meaning in an Uncertain World by Chantal Delsol and translated by Robin Dick Chantal Delsol. Icarus Fallen: The Search for Meaning in an Uncertain World. Tran
Hoover Institution
Guess Who's Helping Assad Get Away With Murder?
Wikileaks is at it again, this time, leaking a (promised) two million-plus emails from the Syrian regime, which has in the past eighteen months tortured, raped and killed at least 15,000 of its own citizens. And look what we have here: A memo explaining h
Gatestone Institute
Turkey's Sex, Lies and Videotapes
If you are not allowed to keep these tapes on your computer, how can you threaten your enemies with them? The issue people should have been concerned about was not porn at all, but the implementation of a system that allows the government at will to to sh
Gatestone Institute
An artful robbery
Recently, a Turkish museum's staff discovered that a large number of famous Ottoman-era drawings from their collection were forgeries, the originals probably stolen years ago. The theft of valuable artworks across the world is more commen than many think.
The National
The Memoir That Exposed a Family’s Secrets. And a Society’s.
THE FAMILIA GRANDE, by Camille Kouchner Translated by Adriana Hunter It is hard to write a book about incest that is neither grotesque nor lurid, even more so when the family in question is famous, wealthy and powerful. Camille Kouchner’s memoir was a sen
New York Times

About

Claire Berlinski

Writing novels

Writing essays

Journalism

Travel writing

Historical research

Writing biographies

Criticism

I'm an American novelist, freelance journalist, travel writer, biographer, historian, editor and consultant who lives amid a menagerie of adopted stray animals in Paris. I'm the author of There is No Alternative: Why Margaret Thatcher Matters. I'm also the author of Menace in Europe: Why the Continent's crisis is America's, Too, and two spy novels: Loose Lips and Lion Eyes. I'm a contributing editor of City Journal, a fellow of the Manhattan Institute, a senior fellow for Turkey of the American Foreign Policy Council, and an editor and regular contributor at Ricochet.com.

I'm now working on a book called Brave Old World: Europe Revisited, a sequel to my first book about Europe, which was published ten years ago. This time, my reporting will be entirely funded by my readers: I'd be ever so grateful for your help.

www.gofundme.com/braveoldworld
www.berlinski.com
www.ricochet.com