James Kirchick is a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution, correspondent for the Daily Beast and a columnist for Tablet magazine. He is also the author of The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues, and the Coming Dark Age.
Kirchick is a former assistant editor at the New Republic.
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