# Ian Buruma
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ian buruma (born December 28, 1951) is a Dutch writer and editor who lives and works in the United States. In 2017, he became editor of The New York Review of Books, but left the position in September 2018.
Much of his writing has focused on the culture of Asia, particularly that of China and 20th-century Japan.
Stay Alive: Berlin, 1939-1945 with author Ian Buruma: Episode 311
This week on History Happy Hour: Life in Berlin during World War II. What was it like for the four million people who lived there as things became increasingly desperate?
Our guest is author Ian Buruma, author of Stay Alive: Berlin, 1939-1945. We’ll talk about the experiences of everyday citizens…
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Bowie Book Club Podcast
Welcome to another episode of the Bowie Book Club, where wild
specul…
Japan Is Rearming. Will It Build the Bomb? (w/ Ian Buruma)
#Germany #Japan #Rearmament
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For more than half a century, the two main Axis powers of WWII lived under strict limits on their militaries. Now both are rearming fast — driven b…
Spectator Out Loud: Paul Wood, Matthew Parris, Ian Buruma, Hermione Eyre and Francis Young
On this week’s Spectator Out Loud: Paul Wood reads his letter from the Vatican (1:17); Matthew Parris warns Conservatives from embracing causes that could lose them as much support as they would gain (7:31); reviewing Richard Overy’s Rain of Ruin: Tokyo, Hiroshima and the Surrender of Japan, Ian Bu…
The Book Club: Ian Buruma
Sam Leith's guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is the writer and editor Ian Buruma, to talk about his new book Collaborators: Three Stories of Deception and Survival in World War Two. A Chinese princess who climbed into bed with Japanese nationalist gangsters; an observant Jew who sold his co-r…
John McWhorter & Ian Buruma – The Spirit of Wokeness
0:00 The protestant ethic and the spirit of wokeness
10:47 Is comparing wokeness to religion a slander on religion?
21:08 Ian: Wokeness is a distraction from real political problems
28:02 How Ian experienced his own cancelation
41:31 America’s exportation of wokeness
45:45 Has wokeness aided a…
Ian Buruma | Stay Alive, Berlin 1939-1945
Join Michael in his conversation with Ian Buruma discussing his new book Stay Alive, Berlin 1939-1945 which is an astonishing account of life under the Nazi regime. Most importantly, the book asks the question how do ordinary people behave morally when their survival requires accommodation to an im…
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