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.

Revel’s Cause
Thereafter he became a distinguished professor and lecturer at a series of elite French universities, abandoning teaching in the 1960s to edit the influential weekly L’Express. After a prolific writing career attacking sterile academism and defending Western democracies—his books include the best-selling The Totalitarian Temptation (1977) and How Democracies Perish (1984)—he was elected in 1997 to the French Academy.
Rammstein’s Rage
the name is a made-up word meaning, more or less, “ramming stone”1—is a popular German band. Very popular. Rammstein released its first album, Herzeleid (“Heartache”), in 1995. Within days, it topped the German Media Control Charts. It stayed in the number one position for five weeks, then remained in the top ten for two years, an unrivaled achievement in Germany’s notoriously fickle pop music market.
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Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle over Islam Is Reshaping the World
On July 15, a cabal of rogue officers attempted to overthrow the Turkish government. But these coup plotters were not secularists — or, at least, no one in Turkey thinks they were. What precisely happened is still opaque, but Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, often described as an Islamist, is certain that the coup was staged by Islamists of a rival camp — loyalists of the preacher Fethullah Gulen.
National Review
Can’t Go Back to Constantinople
Anyone who has ever sat in one of Istanbul’s endless traffic jams, listening to a taxi driver blast his horn and curse the son-of-a-donkey unloading a moving van in front of him, will agree that the city’s transportation system leaves much to be desired. City planners meant to solve this problem when they began construction of a $4 billion subway tunnel beneath the Bosporus.
City Journal
The Wrong Ban
My qualifications as an alarmist about the Islamization of Europe are second to none, according to my critics. But even I cannot find a good legal, political, or moral argument for Swiss voters’ decision, in a November referendum, to ban the building of minarets. Legally, it introduces a contradiction into the Swiss constitution, which is quite clear on this point: “Nobody may be discriminated against, namely for his or her . . . religious, philosophical, or political convictions.”.
City Journal
NR Digital
Belgium’s tolerance of terrorists is Europe’s loss and Russia’s gain. When trying to make sense of recent events in Europe, memory is useful. During the Cold War, Europe was terrorized by now-forgotten murderous far-left and far-right terrorist groups. Germany, Italy, France, Spain, and Turkey, in particular, were turned into abattoirs.
National Review
In Memoriam, Féline
Bidding a fond adieu to a kitten, discovered in the back alleys of Istanbul. Claire Berlinski, who currently lives in Paris, is both a successful novelist and an established analyst of international affairs. In stark contrast to JD Vance’s diatribe attack
WhoWhatWhy
Opinion | Twitter Gave Us an Indispensable Real-Time News Platform. X Took It Away.
POLITICO illustration by Emily Scherer/Photos by iStock Opinion by Claire Berlinski 11/08/2023 05:00 AM EST Claire Berlinski is a Paris-based journalist and the editor of the Cosmopolitan Globalist. I first began using Twitter, now X, after the 2010 eart
POLITICO
The Surprising Reason Europe Came Together Against Putin
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
NewsBreak
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 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
Macron Just Can’t Quit Putin. But His Opponents Are Worse.
Emmanuel Macron meets with Vladimir Putin at the fort of Bregancon in Bormes-les-Mimosas, southern France, Aug. 19, 2019 | Gerard Julien/Pool via AP Opinion by Claire Berlinski 04/09/2022 07:00 AM EDT Updated: 04/19/2022 06:41 PM EDT Claire Berlinski is
POLITICO
Looking for COVID-19 ‘Miracle Drugs’? We Already Have Them. They’re Called Vaccines
Bret Weinstein, a former professor of biology at Evergreen State College, is best known for being hounded off his own campus in 2017 by a horde of social-justice zombies who themselves seemed to resemble nothing so much as a lab accident gone wrong. Havin
Quillette
No Words
My doorbell rang insistently. It was my father. “Notre Dame is on fire,” he said through the intercom. I rushed downstairs. “It’s burning to the ground,” he said. I was speechless. He had been evacuated. He had not brought his phone or his glasses. “You’ll stay with me,” I said. He wanted to go home.
City Journal

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 the Editor-in-Chief of The Cosmopolitan Globalist, an online journal exploring the age of Caesarism and the global challenge to liberal democracy.

https://claireberlinski.substack.com