Mark Dincecco (Michigan): The Rise of Effective States in Europe. Isaac Nakhimovsky (Yale): A Republic of Cuckoo Clocks: Switzerland and the History of Liberty. Gabor Halmai (Eotvos Lorand): An Illiberal Constitutional System in the Middle of Europe. Pal Czegledi (Debrecen): Is an Anti-Capitalistic Mentality Cultural? The Case of Hungarians Inside and Outside Hungary in the World Values Survey. Veronika Dumbrovska and Dana Fialova (Charles): Tourist Intensity in Capital Cities in Central Europe: Comparative Analysis of Tourism in Prague, Vienna and Budapest. Lorenzo Zucca (King’s College): A Secular Manifesto for Europe. Is it time for the Jews to leave Europe? Renewed vitriol among right-wing fascists and new threats from radicalized Islamists have created a crisis, confronting Jews with an agonizing choice. “Risk has gotten greater”: German Jews advised against wearing kippah. Susan Dominus on the National Front’s post-Charlie Hebdo moment: France’s ultranationalist fringe party isn’t so fringe anymore. Two charts that show one way French socialism works surprisingly well. Santiago Zabala and Gianni Vattimo on European (Union) nihilism. Tobias Jones on the murder that has obsessed Italy, and the investigation that will reach its climax later this year. Marjorie Kehe on why Italians are so proud of — and yet unhappy with — their own country.
