New opinion piece for Project Syndicate →

Why Won't Eastern Europeans Get Vaccinated?

Nov 8, 2021

KRISTEN GHODSEE, MITCHELL A. ORENSTEIN

The region’s high degree of vaccine skepticism and surging death rates do not reflect the lingering effects of decades of communist rule, but rather the decades-long social consequences of its collapse. Many countries in the region have not yet reversed the profound erosion of public trust that began after 1989.

My first column in a German newspaper →

It appeared in print in today’s TAZ, and is available in their archive. Thanks so much to my German editor, Christian Heilbronn, for translating!

Project Syndicate is the best →

My Penn colleague, Mitchell Orenstein, and I published an Op-Ed with Project Syndicate last Friday and it has already been translated into Arabic, Chinese, German, Russian, and Spanish.

Así cambiaría la sociedad de EE. UU. si se sigue prohibiendo el aborto →

A Spanish translation of Maria Bucur’s and my Op-Ed, “Así cambiaría la sociedad de EE. UU. si se sigue prohibiendo el aborto”

Something just better about print

The print copy of this month’s issue of The New Republic arrived with my new Op-Ed. I love the feel of pages, and digital will never measure up for me. I am a deeply analogue person.