Philip Gourevitch
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Past articles by Philip:
Is It Time to Call Putin’s War in Ukraine Genocide?
In international law, genocide has nothing explicitly to do with the enormity of criminal acts but, rather, of criminal intent. → Read More
What Is John Bolton’s Bully-Pulpit Attack on the International Criminal Court Really About?
The national-security adviser rejected the very idea that the I.C.C. could inspire any good, simultaneously exaggerating the power of the court as an ominous global colossus and belittling it as a puny contemptible farce. → Read More
Kofi Annan’s Unaccountable Legacy
The former U.N. Secretary-General’s unflappable persona was often cited as his great strength. But in other, much more profound ways, this aloofness was his defining weakness. → Read More
What the International Committee of the Red Cross Can Teach Trump About Reuniting Families
For a century, the I.C.R.C. has devoted extraordinary resources to tracing people who have been displaced and dispersed by conflict and its attendant catastrophes, with the aim of reuniting families. → Read More
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Aharon Appelfeld and the Truth of Fiction in Remembering the Holocaust
There was nothing ennobling, in Appelfeld’s view, about surviving the Holocaust. There was a feral vitality, perhaps, but the damage and the haunting were forever. → Read More
Is the Mugabe Era in Zimbabwe Finally Over?
To many Zimbabweans, Mugabe’s claim that he would live to be a hundred and would die in office had the ring of eternal damnation. → Read More
The Dystopian Future of a Mike Pence Presidency?
To listen to this episode of Trumpcast, use the player below: Subscribe in iTunes ∙ RSS feed ∙ Download ∙ Play in another tab Jacob Weisberg, Philip Go ... → Read More
In San Juan, Trump Tells Puerto Ricans That They Have Been Lucky
Philip Gourevitch on the Trump Administration’s dismal response to hurricane damage on Puerto Rico and the President’s unwillingness to remedy the situation. → Read More
The Return of the Trumpcast Book Club
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“What a Pair of Lungs!”: Denis Johnson’s Ecstatic American Voice
Johnson’s work throbbed with his irreducibly American voice, veering between hardboiled banter and hyperacute physical and emotional immediacy. → Read More
“What a Pair of Lungs!”: Denis Johnson’s Ecstatic American Voice
Philip Gourevitch writes about the poet and novelist Denis Johnson, who died this week, at the age of sixty-seven. → Read More
Abraham Lincoln Warned Us About Donald Trump
Donald Trump inspires a lawlessness that Abraham Lincoln saw as the most pressing threat to the Republic. → Read More
Abraham Lincoln Warned Us About Donald Trump
Donald Trump inspires a lawlessness that Abraham Lincoln saw as the most pressing threat to the Republic. → Read More
The Buddy System
Philip Gourevitch on Buddy Cianci, the former mayor of Providence, Rhode Island, who died this week, and had resigned his post after felony convictions. → Read More
The Paris Attacks: Aftermath and Prelude
With the increasing familiarity of such attacks comes the increasing familiarity of the reaction. → Read More
The Paris Attacks: Aftermath and Prelude
With the increasing familiarity of such attacks comes the increasing familiarity of the reaction. → Read More
Nonfiction Wins a Nobel
Alexievich is anything but a simple recorder and transcriber of found voices; she has a writerly voice of her own, which emerges from the chorus she assembles. → Read More
Nonfiction Wins a Nobel
Alexievich is anything but a simple recorder and transcriber of found voices; she has a writerly voice of her own, which emerges from the chorus she assembles. → Read More
The New World Disorder
In “The New World Disorder,” Philip Gourevitch considers what President Obama should do about ISIS, Bashar al-Assad, and a new move by Vladimir Putin. → Read More