November 16, 2012
It’s hard to believe that a former mob prosecutor was unaware of the mob ties of his top public works officials.
February 27, 2010
The Man Who Blew Up the Welfare State
Together with the quaint aesthetics of the Scandinavian countryside, this socialist backdrop is precisely what makes the genre work. It’s shocking enough when a bloated corpse turns up floating in Stockholm’s pristine, well-managed waterways or when a serial killer disrupts the huddles of little red cottages that dot the Swedish countryside.
October 13, 2009
Jagland raised his voice as he continued to read from the citation, struggling to be heard above the clamor.
Ignoble Nobel
August 25, 2009
Absent from Hamsun 2009 is a memorial as permanent and visible as a street. The result is a qualified memorial.
