Eastern Europe: An Ethno-Nationalist Utopia

…Except for Ukraine. But for how long?

As the world celebrates the Fall of the Berlin Wall, I want to flag something that a reader pointed me to. It’s a post from a few years ago by Branko Milanovic, a historian and professor who’s now at CUNY. And it’s about the nature of democracy and nationalism in post-Communist Europe.

There’s been a lot of handwringing about the “breakdown of democracy”…